BIB_ID
413393
Accession number
MA 205.8
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Pub. for S. Ireland, May 1st 1799.
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : etching ; 103 x 157 mm (trimmed within platemark); 86 x 108 mm (design)
Notes
Illustration to Samuel Ireland's Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, volume II, facing page 78.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Portrait of the critic, half length, facing 3/4 to the right, lighting his long pipe with a candle; facsimile of a pen sketch after Hogarth.
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