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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
1860,0623.77
Title
Object:
Morning
Series:
The Four Times of Day
Description
Copy of scene in Covent Garden (the topography reversed in the printing process) with an elaborately dressed middle-aged woman heading towards St Paul's church followed by a small servant boy; to the right two young gentlemen embrace market girls while other women huddle around a fire and large baskets of vegetables, behind them is the single-storey building of Tom King's Coffee House with icicles along the edge of the roof and a fight taking place within; to the left, in the middle distance, a number of people including two small boys with school bags on their backs and a man holding a placard advertising Dr Rock's remedy; after Hogarth. Mezzotint with etching
Producer name
After:
William Hogarth
Print made by:
Charles Spooner
School/style
British
Production date
1738-1767
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
etching
Dimensions
Height:
354 millimetres
Width:
253 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition
(146)
(copy)
Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition
(152)
(copy)
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(2366)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
christianity
market/bazaar
coffee-house
women/feminism
Associated names
Associated with:
Tom King
Associated with:
Dr Richard Rock
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
London
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Willis & Sotheran
Acquisition date
1860
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1860,0623.77