print;
satirical print;
ticket
- Museum number
- Cc,1.137
- Title
- Object: The Battle of the Pictures
- Description
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Bidder's ticket for an auction of paintings by Hogarth with ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge from his studio: a weeping Magdalene spears the third scene of A Harlot's Progress, a procession of Bacchus encounters Midnight Modern Conversation, and so on. 1745
Etching
- Production date
- 1745
- Dimensions
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Height: 201 millimetres
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Width: 213 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The nineteen paintings offered at Hogarth's auction in February 1745 were "A Harlot's Progress", "A Rake's Progress", "The Four Times of Day" and "Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1998 Jan-Apr, USA, Berkeley AM, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Jun-Aug, Ottawa, NGC, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Sep-Nov, USA, NY, Columbia Univ, Hogarth and his Times
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.137