Accession number
PML 146853.9
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n.], publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1747.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson.
"Price one shilling" at lower left.
The 3rd state as described by Paulson, with the flag reading "No Old Baby" burnished out.
Library's copy mounted on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) 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).
"Price one shilling" at lower left.
The 3rd state as described by Paulson, with the flag reading "No Old Baby" burnished out.
Library's copy mounted on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) 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 with engraving ; image: 208 x 296 mm; plate mark: 217 x 309 mm; sheet: 257 x 356 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the courtyard of the "Old Angel In", a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; and a crowd of election campaigners demonstrate at the far end of the inn.
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