Accession number
PML 146852.28
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, Nov. 5, 1759.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson.
Lettered within image at the bottom with the words "Pit Ticket" flanking a medallion containing a rooster and the words "Royal Sport"; publication line at lower left: Design'd and Engrav'd by Willm. Hogarth / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark and mounted on album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
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).
Lettered within image at the bottom with the words "Pit Ticket" flanking a medallion containing a rooster and the words "Royal Sport"; publication line at lower left: Design'd and Engrav'd by Willm. Hogarth / Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Library's copy trimmed within platemark and mounted on album leaf 455 x 625 mm.
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: 299 x 371 mm; sheet: 320 x 385 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of the cockpit on the south side of St James's Park, or, alternatively, the cockpit at Newmarket (see curator's comments in British Museum catalog), with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the center); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap; below, a representation of a silver admission ticket.
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