Accession number
PML 146853.19b
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Pub. as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth, [Oct. 31] 1775.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Library's copy trimmed to 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).
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 ; image: 331 x 264 mm; sheet: 361 x 290 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With "31 October" added to the date in ink in a contemporary hand.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man seated at a table, in profile to the left, reading an issue of the Gazeteer and oblivious to the fact that the candle he holds in his other hand is burning a hole in his hat.
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