print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1859,0316.1042
Title: Series: Hogarth Moralised
Description: Two images after Hogarth; the first; 'The Laughing Audience', the audience roaring with laughter at an unseen play or comic opera, muscians in the pit below playing wind instruments, two fops above in a box, the first making advances to two orange girls and the other to a well-dressed lady; the second; "A Consultation of Physicians or the Company of Undertakers", the whole portrayed as a coat of arms, a group of physicians, all bewigged and clutching walking canes, one testing a vial of urine with his finger, three notorious quacks, Dr. Spot Ward, Mrs Mapp and the Chevalier Taylor above them, crossbones and the motto "Et plurima mortis imago" below; after William Hogarth; illustration to "Hogarth Moralised" (1831) Etching
Producer name: Print made by: George Cruikshank; Published by: John Major; After: William Hogarth
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Production date: 1831
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 170 millimetres; Width: 115 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (1520); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1953); Cohn 1924 / George Cruikshank, catalogue raisonné (397); Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (130) (after)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: doctor; theatre/opera house
Associated names: Illustration to: John Trusler; Representation of: Sarah Mapp; Representation of: John Taylor; Representation of: Joshua Ward
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Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1859,0316.1042

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