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Object Type
Museum number: 1858,0417.510
Title: Object: Vauxhall Tickets
Description: Copy of eight designs on tickets for Vauxhall Gardens: Female figures of Virtus and Voluptas, and below, on a scroll, FELICES UNA, with recto, after design formerly attributed to Hogarth. Calliope sitting with flute and book in hands, with recto. Three cupids on pedestal; tree and temple; ornamental border with loop, with recto. Handel seated playing lyre; child angel; colonnade; ornamental border twined with laurel, after Roubiliac. Euterpe sitting in profile to left, playing a clarion, with recto. Erato sitting with lyre, looking up right, with Cupid below. Thalia standing with a mask in hand, with recto. Arion playing lyre, seated on dolphin; border of scrolls and leaves; scallop shell. After badges of which designs attributed to or formerly attributed to Hogarth. 1825 Engraving and etching on chine-collé
Producer name: After: William Hogarth (formerly attributed to); After: Richard Yeo (attributed to); After: Louis François Roubiliac; After: James Stow; Published by: Robert Wilkinson
School/style: British; French
Production date: 1825
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 324 millimetres; Width: 254 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1913,0515.1 and MG.671-685 for the badges.
Bibliographic references: Nichols 1833 / Anecdotes of William Hogarth [and] a Catalogue of his Prints ... (p. 288); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (undescribed) (copy); Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (undescribed) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: William Hogarth; Associated with: George Barret (the younger) (?); Representation of: Virtus; Representation of: Voluptas; Representation of: Calliope; Portrait of: George Frederick Händel; Representation of: Euterpe; Representation of: Erato; Representation of: Thalia; Representation of: Arion
Associated places: Associated with: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0417.510

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