print study; drawing

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Object Type: print study; drawing
Museum number: 1880,0214.274
Description: Illustration to Shaftesbury's 'Characteristicks', 2nd edition, 1714, design for the headpiece to Vol II, p 181; 'The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody', within an architectural framework with scrolls and naked boys, a stage with a woman representing Philosophy, and on either side statues of Minerva and Apollo, on the left the interior of a college with scholars at a lecture, on the right an alchemist in his laboratory. 1712 Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, heightened with white
Producer name: Print made by: Simon Gribelin; Drawn by: Henry Trench
School/style: British
Production date: 1712
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 102 millimetres; Width: 216 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Engraved by Gribelin in the same sense. For further information, see 1880,0214.247
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (21); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (6(b))
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.274
Subjects: ornament; allegory/personification; scholar
Associated names: Illustration to: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: William Benoni White; Purchased through: Christie's (sale 29-30.i.1880/220 (set of 31 drawings)); Purchased through: John Wilson
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Esdaile (sale, Christie's, 23.vi.1840/870 - £2 for 32 drawings to White)
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,0214.274

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