[Characters and caricaturas] [graphic]
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16194025
Description
- Title
- [Characters and caricaturas] [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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3 characters. 4 caricaturas
Three characters. Four caricaturas - Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Contributor
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Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609, artist.
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755, artist.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, artist.
Raphael, 1483-1520, artist. - Published / Created
- [April 1743]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
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The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
- Description
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Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas.
Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews.
Date and state from Paulson.
The receipt is engraved below the caption: Rec'd [blankl] of [blank] Half a guinea being the first payment for six prints called Marriage a la mode which I promise to deliver when finish'd on receiving half a guinea more. N.B. The price will be one guinea and an half after the time of subscribing.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to right of print: See Nichols's bok, 3d. edit. p. 262.
Blanks filled in ms. to show receipt from Mr. Stephen Abbort, dated 12 May 1743 and signed by Hogarth.
On page 108 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides: 27.4 x 20.4. - 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 25.6 x 20.3 cm
- Edition
- [State 1].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Ephemera
Subscription
Receipts (financial records)
Satires (Visual works) England 1743
Etchings England London 1743
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic)
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Art
Caricatures
Heads (Anatomy) - Subjects
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Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Art
Caricatures
Heads (Anatomy)
England > 1743
England > London > 1743
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Autograph
Abbort, Stephen > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11319704
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194025
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