The battle of the pictures [graphic].Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker[February 1745][printed approximately 1800?]eng"Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text in image.Text above image: The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper,) to be a bidder for Mr. Hogarth's pictures, which are to be sold on the last day of this month.Artist, printmaker, and publisher attributions to Hogarth from Paulson.Restrike on wove paper, likely printed around the turn of the 19th century. Level of plate wear is comparable to that seen on impressions issued in: The original works of William Hogarth. [London] : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell ..., 1790 [that is 1795].