Accession number
PML 146852.11
Creator
Sullivan, Luke, 1705-1771, engraver.
Published
[London : s.n., ca. 1762
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title; date from Paulson.
Luke Sullivan's engraving after Hogarth's painting at Lincoln's Inn; a republished state of the engraving originally published in 1752, with the quotation from Warton, publication line, and name of the engraver removed; this state ca. 1762? 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).
Luke Sullivan's engraving after Hogarth's painting at Lincoln's Inn; a republished state of the engraving originally published in 1752, with the quotation from Warton, publication line, and name of the engraver removed; this state ca. 1762? 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: 380 x 503 mm; plate mark: 422 x 522 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea; Paul to right with arms raised, Felix sitting with two priests on a dais at centre, one sitting uncomfortably with his chin in his hand, two clerks in front of the bench at which St Paul stands; to left, the orator Tertullus holding a scroll and leaning on a lectern decorated with a large eagle, in front of the Roman standard; a soldier to right and two figures carrying fascae either side of the dais.
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