print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.1586
- Title
- Object: The Bruiser
- Description
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A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth". 1763
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1763
- Dimensions
-
Height: 376 millimetres
-
Width: 282 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1998 Jan-Apr, USA, Berkeley AM, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Jun-Aug, Ottawa, NGC, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Sep-Nov, USA, NY, Columbia Univ, Hogarth and his Times
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Acquisition notes
- The inscription on the verso suggests that it was one of three states of the print in Lot 752 in George Baker's sale at Sotheby's on 16-27.vi.1825 (the lot sold for £5.7s.6d. to the dealer Anthony Molteno), described in the catalogue as "... first impression, with the white club" (Paulson's State I appears as Lot 753 in the same sale).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.1586