drawing; print study

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Object Type: drawing; print study
Museum number: Cc,2.179
Title: Object: Satire on False Perspective; Object: The Absurdity of False Perspective
Description: Loose copy of background with considerable differences, from 'Satire on False Perspective'; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, two ladies in the foreground catch a fish, a tree to right growing on the side of a river, a woman leans from a bridge to give a cup to a man on a distant hill; after Hogarth. Pen and ink with grey wash
Producer name: After: William Hogarth; Drawn by: Samuel Ireland
School/style
Production date: 1794 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 169 millimetres (sheet); Width: 208 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See Cc,2.178 for print.
Bibliographic references: Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (232) (copy); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (239) (copy); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3259)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; art
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1827 (before)
Acquisition notes: See comment on S,2.1.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Cc,2.179

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