[The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].
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33185514
Description
- Title
- [The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [December 1733]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
-
Fourth state of a plate for a subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair" with the text burnished with only a couple of traces remaining. "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 18.7 x 17.2 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 20.4 cm.
Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm.
Plate 62 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. - Provenance
- Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction. Purchased by W.S. Lewis at Sotheby's, Miss M.A.E. Crofton sale, lot 341; 15 November 1960.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 191 x 175 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Edition
- [State 4].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Plate 62. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1733
Etchings England London 1733 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Dandies
British
Food vendors
Laughter
Orchestras
Smoking
Theater audiences
Theaters - Subjects
-
Dandies > British
Food vendors
Laughter
Orchestras
Smoking
Theater audiences
Theaters
England > 1733
England > London > 1733
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9883134
- Object ID (OID)
- 33185514