A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek temple. The only other furnishings in the room are a broken chair, a folding bed tilted up against the wall, and a chamber pot
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., After Hogarth's print of the same name, 1740., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; sheet 18.5 x 25.5 cm., and Printed in vermillion ink on wove paper.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behind him on the wall on either side are two wall maps, one of western Europe and the tip of northern Africa and the other of the Americas and Asia
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., After the design by WilliamHogarth, published by Jane Hogarth 1775., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 17.2 x 24 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 27 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.