print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- K,57.77
- Title
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Object: A game of draughts interrupted
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Series: Characters who frequented Button's Coffee house about the year 1730
- Description
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Plate 3: Copy of four men at a table, on l, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth (BM, 1861,0413.509); republication for illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic illustrations of Hogarth' (vol. I, 1794). 1786
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 146 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This state is a version of that used as an illustration facing p. 35 of Samuel Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, I, 1794. Ireland suggests the likeness to Pope on p. 38. In the British Museum's edition of Ireland's volume, the plate number appears to be 1, but has been amended in graphite to '3'.
The plate was published in 1786 by W Dickenson, see 1861,0413.511.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Graphic illustrations of Hogarth
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,57.77
