Accession number
PML 146853.16b
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n., February 1745
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Library's copy 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: 175 x 198 mm; plate mark: 210 x 194 mm; sheet: 244 x 223 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on.
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