Publication Place: London / Creator: Dawe, Philip, printmaker / Subject (Topic): Painting

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1. Pug the painter following the example of Messrs. Scumble, Asphaltum, &c. Varnish ; O imitatores servum pecus. [graphic]

Creator:: Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1754]
Call Number:: Hogarth 754.00.00.03 Box 110
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:: Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):: Painting, Monkeys, and Owls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Pug the painter following the example of Messrs. Scumble, Asphaltum, &c. Varnish ; O imitatores servum pecus. [graphic]

2. Pug the painter following the example of Messrs. Scumble, Asphaltum, &c. Varnish ; O imitatores servum pecus. [graphic]

Creator:: Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1754]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:: Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 28.6 x 21.2 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):: Painting, Monkeys, and Owls
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Pug the painter following the example of Messrs. Scumble, Asphaltum, &c. Varnish ; O imitatores servum pecus. [graphic]