print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1880,1113.6163
- Title
- Object: Masquerades and Operas, Burlington Gate
- Description
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Copy of Hogarth's satire on the "bad taste of the town"; a composite street scene with a theatre on either side and an "Academy of Arts" (Lord Burlington's recently remodelled house in Piccadilly) beyond; on the left, a fool and a devil are leading a crowd of masqueraders into the Opera House in the Haymarket from which hang a banner advertising an opera (based on BMSat 1768 with the singers Cuzzoni, Senesino and Berenstadt) and a sign for "Dr. Faux's [Isaac Fawkes] Dexterity of Hand", the impressario John James Heidegger leans from an upper window; on the right, a crowd is flocking to see the pantomime "Dr Faustus"; in the centre, a woman pushes a wheelbarrow of waste paper including volumes of Congreve, Dryden, Ottway, Shakespeare and Addison; the gate of the Academy beyond is topped with statues of Michelangelo, Raphael and William Kent, admired by three gentlemen; after Hogarth. c.1724
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1724 (or after)
- Dimensions
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Height: 166 millimetres
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Width: 204 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Stephens, this plate, with the publication line 'Jones & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London', was made to illustrate the Rev. John Trusler, 'The Works of William Hogarth' (London, 1833), facing p. 105. It was later used, omitting the publication line, to illustrate Trusler and EF Roberts, 'The Complete Works of William Hogarth' (London, n.d.).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Works of William Hogarth
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Associated Title: Tne Complete Works of William Hogarth
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,1113.6163