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Object Type
Museum number: 1858,0417.517
Title: Object: A waiter and a hungry customer; Series: Characters who frequented Button's Coffee house about the year 1730
Description: Plate 1: Copy of an elderly man with dishevelled hair and a dog at his heels, bending forward to seize a mug from the waiter, said to be Daniel Button, who turns his head away; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth (BM, 1861,0413.506); proof before publication line. 1786 Etching and aquatint
Producer name: After: William Hogarth (former attribution); Print made by: Samuel Ireland
School/style
Production date: 1786
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 150 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 173 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A later state of the print was used as an illustration facing p. 25 of Samuel Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, I, 1794, where Ireland identifies the waiter as Daniel Button.
Bibliographic references: Nichols 1833 / Anecdotes of William Hogarth [and] a Catalogue of his Prints ... (p. 276); Oppe 1948 / The Drawings of William Hogarth (14) (copy); Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (undescribed); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (undescribed); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1702)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: coffee-house; waiter/waitress
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0417.517

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