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1. The match maker [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Inscribed in plate at top right: Page 276., Illustration from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth?, Not in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 209 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Betrothal, Couples, and Marriage
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The match maker [graphic]
2. Woman swearing a child [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd March 1798.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pregnant young woman standing to the right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Text following title: Vide Picart's Religious ceremonies, Vol. VI, p. 81., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See reference to related print published by Joseph Sympson: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 107., and On page 11 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Woman swearing a child [graphic]
