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1. Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of William Hogarth's portrait of Simon Lord Lovat as an elderly, rotund man seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "Page 293"--Upper right corner., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of sheet: Copy., and On page 123 in volume 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Jacobites, Obesity, Peerage, British, and Rebellions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Simon Lord Lovat [graphic]