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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
Cc,1.111
Title
Object:
Sarah Malcolm
Description
Copy of Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table; after Hogarth; early state before '6d' added after price. Etching and engraving
Producer name
After:
William Hogarth
School/style
British
Production date
1733-1750
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
198 millimetres
Width:
193 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Hogarth's painting of Sarah Malcolm is in the National Gallery of Scotland. See Hogarth's print 1868,0822.1512; 1841,0809.229; Cc,1.109. See Cc.1.110 for later state.
Bibliographic references
Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition
(129)
(copy)
Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition
(129)
(copy)
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(1908)
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
murder/murderer
Associated names
Portrait of:
Sarah Malcolm
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
William Packer
(probably)
Acquisition date
1827
(before)
Acquisition notes
See comment on S,2.1.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Cc,1.111