Simon Lord Lovat [print] / drawn from the life and etch'd in aquafortis by Willm. Hogarth.

Accession number: 
PML 146853.19a
Author: 
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published: 
[London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, August 25th 1746.
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: 335 x 223 mm; sheet: 364 x 236 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with "Price I shilling" added at lower left.
Library's copy trimmed to 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).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Portrait shows the elderly lord sitting on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet, at a table on which is a book lettered "Memoirs" and quill pen in an ink bottle; he looks slightly to the left as he counts on his fingers the various clans that he had brought to his cause and battle to support the Stuart claim to the throne.

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