print;
satirical print;
book;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- K,26.1
- Description
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'A Dissertation on Mr. Hogarth's Six Prints Lately publish'd, viz. Gin-Lane, Beer-Street, and the Four Stages of Cruelty' (B. Dickinson: London, 1751): frontispiece, portrait of Hogarth after his self-portrait in 'O The Roast Beef of Old England' (Paulson 180), half-length in oval on plinth, profile to left, in the act of drawing; titlepage; letterpress text on pages numbered 3-59.
Letterpress text with an etched frontispiece; bound in red leather stamped with gold, with marbled endpapers and gilt-edged pages
- Production date
- 1751
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Height: 171 millimetres (platemark, frontispiece)
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Width: 122 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 105 millimetres (platemark, frontispiece)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Dissertation on Mr. Hogarth's Six Prints
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1837 (between)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,26.1
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1973,U.1164
