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Object Type
Museum number: 1861,0413.513
Title: Object: A game of draughts interrupted; Characters who frequented Button's Coffee house about the year 1730
Description: Plate 3: Copy of four men at a table, on l, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth (BM, 1861,0413.509). 1786 Etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Samuel Ireland; After: William Hogarth (former attribution); Published by: William Dickinson
School/style
Production date: 1786
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 155 millimetres; Width: 189 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A later state of the print was used as an illustration facing p. 35 of Samuel Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, I, 1794. Annotations in this state identify Dr Arbuthnot and Count Viviani; Ireland suggests the likeness to Pope on p. 38.
Bibliographic references: Nichols 1833 / Anecdotes of William Hogarth [and] a Catalogue of his Prints ... (p. 276); Oppe 1948 / The Drawings of William Hogarth (16) (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 (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Alexander Pope; Portrait of: Dr John Arbuthnot; Portrait of: Count Viviani
Acquisition name: Purchased from: George Smith, the printseller; Purchased through: Sotheby's (4-12.iii.1861/813); Purchased through: Colnaghi
Acquisition date: 1861
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1861,0413.513

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