Hogarth's tour. Frontispiece [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Hogarth's tour. Frontispiece [graphic]
- Creator
- Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [27 November 1781]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 27th 1781 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's Leicester Fields
- Abstract
-
An emblematical image of Hogarth's short journey with some friends 'by land and water, backwards and forwards, without head or tail': a sort of human torso with arms placed upright on the ground, a red kerchief is placed about the neck, the coat is half painted blue and shaped like that of a sailor of this period, half painted brown and being longer than the other half and fitted with a cape at the shoulders like that of a landsman; the hand on the former
- Description
-
Title etched above and below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate for: Gosling, W. An account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons ...
Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit, p. 413.
On page 210 in volume 3. - 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 : sheet 23.6 x 35 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Frontispieces
Aquatints England London 1781
Etchings England London 1781 - Material
- etching and aquatint in sepia ink with ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
-
18th century
England > 1781
England > London > 1781
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > 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
- 12722200
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194229
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