print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1858,0626.369
- Title
- Object: A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, in the Year 1745
- Description
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"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a chimney boy, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink; in the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill. 1750
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1750
- Dimensions
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Height: 443 millimetres
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Width: 566 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The copperplate for this print is in the British Museum: see 1937,0807.4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1998 Jan-April, USA, Berkeley AM, Hogarth and his Times
1998 June-Aug, Ottawa, NGC, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Sep-Nov, USA, NY, Columbia Univ, Hogarth and his Times
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Jacobite Rebellion 1745-1746
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Acquisition notes
- See Carpenter's annotation is the BM copy of the 1845 Standly sale catalogue, lot 972, where it was purchased by White for £28 7s. "In BM. White sold this impression to Mr Garford, who in 1857 exchanged it with Graves for other prints, when it was secured for the British Museum. It was purchased by Col. Durrant at Baker's sale & by him conceded to Mr Standly. Quere is there a second known in this state." With a later annotation "Yes, Willett".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0626.369