Accession number
PML 146853.12b
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publish'd by W. Hogarth, March 3rd 1736.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
"Price Six pence".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the spelling of "Docter" and "Docters" corrected.
Lettered with motto "Et Plurima Mortis Imago"; text below caption title, being a mock explanation of the coat-of-arms, beginning "Beareth Sable, an Urinal proper ...".
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark: and mounted with two other prints by Hogarth 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 Six pence".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the spelling of "Docter" and "Docters" corrected.
Lettered with motto "Et Plurima Mortis Imago"; text below caption title, being a mock explanation of the coat-of-arms, beginning "Beareth Sable, an Urinal proper ...".
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark: and mounted with two other prints by Hogarth 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 and engraving ; image: 178 x 215 mm; plate mark: 180 x 262 mm; sheet: 263 x 180 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A mock coat-of-arms with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward; three in the lower centre peer at liquid in a glass phial, the one to left using a pince-nez.
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