Accession number
PML 146852.7
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Wm. Hogarth, December 15, 1740.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
The 3rd state, with 1740 publication date, new caption title replacing the verses from the Dunciad present in the second state, and various changes made to the design. Cf. Paulson.
Print mounted on backing leaf and mounted into 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 trimmed to plate mark and mounted on album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
The 3rd state, with 1740 publication date, new caption title replacing the verses from the Dunciad present in the second state, and various changes made to the design. Cf. Paulson.
Print mounted on backing leaf and mounted into 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 trimmed to plate mark and mounted on album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 315 x 387 mm; sheet: 360 x 411 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled "Riches a Poem" while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet's head is a map titled "A View of the Gold mines of Peru".
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