print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Cc,1.228
- Description
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Copy of ornamental design with a small oval at centre of three men standing around a group of sheep; elaborate frame with figures of Painting at left and Sculpture at right, putti, garlands and musical instruments, in oval; copy after a rubbing taken from a silver tankard engraved by Hogarth; an illustration to Samuel Ireland, 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794), Vol. 1, opposite p. 77; first state before Hogarth's name.
Etching
- Production date
- 1794 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 177 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For Hogarth's print, see Heal,59.83. Ireland suggests that the subject depicted is from the story of Laban and his sheep.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.228