print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Cc,2.253
Title: Object: The R.t Hon: Gustavus Lord Viscount Boyne & c
Description: Copy of portrait after Hogarth, full-length standing in a landscape, right hand on a stone ledge, hat and cane in his left, looking at and bowing slightly to the viewer with right foot advanced, wearing a suit with a high sheen, the coat open to reveal a long waistcoat decorated with flourishes; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (vol. I, 1794, opposite p.133). Etching
Producer name: After: William Hogarth; Print made by: Monogrammist AMJ
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Production date: 1794
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Dimensions: Height: 227 millimetres; Width: 144 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Nichols 1833 / Anecdotes of William Hogarth [and] a Catalogue of his Prints ... (p. 304) (cf.); Einberg 2016 / William Hogarth : a complete catalogue of the paintings (118) (copy); Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (undescribed); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (undescribed); 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
Associated names: Portrait of: Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne; Illustration to: Samuel Ireland
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Acquisition date: 1827 (before)
Acquisition notes: See comment on S,2.1.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Cc,2.253

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