Accession number
PML 146852.6
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n., 1733
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title; date from Paulson.
Six lines of verse, beginning: Think not to find one meant Resemblance there ... So Nature dictated what Art has taught.
The 3rd state, with a shadow added below the tobacco paper on the front of the tablecloth. Cf. Paulson.
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).
Six lines of verse, beginning: Think not to find one meant Resemblance there ... So Nature dictated what Art has taught.
The 3rd state, with a shadow added below the tobacco paper on the front of the tablecloth. Cf. Paulson.
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).
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 326 x 456 mm; plate mark: 343 x 470 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a drinking scene with eleven men in a panelled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower right.
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