Accession number
PML 146853.22
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n., ca. 1750
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from Paulson.
The 1st state as described by Paulson, being a proof before letters.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints sold by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
The 1st state as described by Paulson, being a proof before letters.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints sold by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; image: 94 x 147 mm; plate mark: 101 x 151 mm; sheet: 167 x 268 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Initialed J.T. at lower right; in ink on verso: A Landscape View of Chiswick, Hogarth.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
View from Hogarth's house at Chiswick across a cornfield; neighboring houses are shown among the trees; in the foreground, to the left, a man holding a staff is seated beside a tree with a dog at his feet.
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