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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [March 1737]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson., Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text:, Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Hogarth's (?) ms. notes in ink filling in blanks in ticket: date "1733 Dembr." of "the Right Honble. Lord Biron". Ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above prints: See Nichol's Book, 3d edit. p. 179. Ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above this print: Laughing Pit 1st Impression., and On page 57 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, and Theaters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].