Accession number
PML 146853.16a
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n., March 1761]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson.
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchasers of Hogarth's "Sigismonda".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the plate cut and the subscription ticket removed.
Engraved caption within image at lower right: As Statues moulder into worth. P:W.; below image: To Nature and your Self appeal, / Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print 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).
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchasers of Hogarth's "Sigismonda".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the plate cut and the subscription ticket removed.
Engraved caption within image at lower right: As Statues moulder into worth. P:W.; below image: To Nature and your Self appeal, / Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print 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 mezzotint ; image: 202 x 169 mm; sheet: 240 x 184 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Etching shows Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting which he has pierced with his scythe; to left, a large jar labelled "Varnish".
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