Subscription ticket for the Harlot's progress [graphic]

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Title
Subscription ticket for the Harlot's progress [graphic]
Creator
Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
Contributor
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Hogarth, Jane, 1711?-1789.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published / Created
[23 April 1782]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd April 23d, 1782 Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Abstract

Copy of the first state of William Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and one, along with a satyr, lifting the shift of a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus. Enscribed on either side of Diana: "Antiquam exquirite matrem. Vir."

Description
Title etched below image.
Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.) no. 120.
On page 57 in volume 1. With note in Steeven's hand above print: Copy.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent
1 print : plate mark x mm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Aquatints England London 1782
Material
aquatint with etching ;
Subject (Name)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic)
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Art
Painting
Putti
Subjects
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Diana (Roman deity)
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Art
Painting
Putti
England > London > 1782
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12445853
Object ID (OID)
16193906

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