drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1847,0320.1
- Description
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One of 10 illustrations to the manuscript by Ebenezer Forrest of Hogarth's Peregrination, 1732, bound in brown calf and lettered in gold, with drawings by William Hogarth, Samuel Scott and John Thornhill; emblematic frontispiece, 'Mr Somebody', with the trunk of a man's body in a greatcoat holding the mast and sail of a boat, a broken column denoting Antiquity, and the keep of Rochester Castle
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and watercolour
- Production date
- 1732
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 302 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The manuscript describes a five day tour of the Thames and Medway estuaries by Ebenezer Forrest, William Hogarth, Samuel Scott, John Thornhill and William Tothall. It was published in 1781 as 'Hogarth's Tour'.
From album 1847,0320.1-10.
See also 1944,1014.167.1-10.
For prints that copied the drawings, see Cc,1.193-201.
A watercolour drawing by Scott also deriving from this tour, 'Rochester Castle, Kent, from the north-west' was sold at Martyn Gregory, May 2012 (63)
See Cc,1.194 for copied print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.167
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,0320.1
