Accession number:
PML 146852.15
Published:
[London] : Wm. Hogarth, March 25, 1738.
Description:
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 424 x 539 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from Paulson and other secondary sources.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Library's copy cropped within platemark at top of sheet.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows the interior of a barn where nine actresses and four child actors are dressed as classical deities and preparing for a performance, surrounded by props and costumes, including kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating into a helmet, and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle.
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