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Frontis-piss / W. Hogarth Invt.: Sam. Ireland fe:.

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William Hogarth
1697-1764

Frontis-piss / W. Hogarth Invt.: Sam. Ireland fe:.

Published

[Place not specified] : [publisher not specified], [after 1763?]

102 x 160 mm, trimmed within plate mark; design: 82 x 138 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 0401
Notes
According to Samuel Ireland, this was designed as a frontispiece to a pamphlet by Gregory Sharp which was never actually published.
This is apparently a copyby Samuel Ireland of the etching after Hogarth's design by La Cave. For the etching by La Cave see Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works (1965), no. 250.
Associated names
Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800. engraver.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department