print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.1626
- Title
- Object: The Times Plate 2
- Description
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An emblematic view of London after the end of the Seven Years War; in the centre, surrounded by a moat, is a formal garden with a statue of George III based on Allan Ramsay's portrait standing on a fountain from which jets of water play on young shrubs; the fountain is filled from a pipe operated by the Earl of Bute; a large shrub in a pot labelled "Culloden" is watered directly from the urn held by the figure of Aquarius, one of a series of zodiacal signs in the sky; to left, an open-fronted building with the Speaker on his throne and members of parliament who either sleep or else fire guns at the dove of peace flying above; to right, a building representing the Society of Arts, on top of which is a crane hauling up an enormous palette labelled "Premium" (alluding to the annual prizes given to promising artists), a mob including soldiers with missing limbs, and a pillory in which stand Fanny Lynes ("the Cock Lane ghost", a hoax of early 1762) and John Wilkes; in the distance, a hospital and the Kew Gardens pagoda. 1762/3
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1762-1763
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 millimetres
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Width: 312 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1997 Sep-Nov, Manchester, Whitworth AG, 'William Hogarth'
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Seven Years War 1756-1763
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.1626