Accession number
PML 146853.21
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publishd according to Act of Parliamt., March 3, 1764.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
At head of sheet: Tailpiece.
Additional lettering reads: But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, Or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye: - Dragon of Wantley.
The 7th state as described by Paulson, with "NB" engraved on the bear's club, the words "Dragon of Wantley" added below, etc.
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).
Library's copy mounted on bound sheet 455 x 625 mm
At head of sheet: Tailpiece.
Additional lettering reads: But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, Or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye: - Dragon of Wantley.
The 7th state as described by Paulson, with "NB" engraved on the bear's club, the words "Dragon of Wantley" added below, etc.
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).
Library's copy mounted on bound sheet 455 x 625 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 260 x 325 mm; plate mark: 320 x 336 mm; sheet: 367 x 394 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figure of Time with a broken scythe reclining against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction and extinction: a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times", and broken objects, including an hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle and broom.
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