Accession number
PML 146852.8
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Wm. Hogarth, Nov. 30, 1741.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
The 3rd state as described by Paulson, with additional shading and crosshatching added to the design.
Full publication line reads: Design'd, Engrav'd & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth Novbr. the 30th. 1741 According to Act of Parliament --- Price 3 Shillings.
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 bound album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
The 3rd state as described by Paulson, with additional shading and crosshatching added to the design.
Full publication line reads: Design'd, Engrav'd & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth Novbr. the 30th. 1741 According to Act of Parliament --- Price 3 Shillings.
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 bound album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 330 x 400 mm; sheet: 360 x 412 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a ballad-seller chants while her baby cries, a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares, one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle, an itinerant oboist plays, a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, and so on.
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