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Frontis-piss
Title
Frontis-piss [graphic] / W. Hogarth invt. ; Sam. Ireland fe.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1763]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Copy after a Hogarth's design for a frontispiece to a pamphlet against the Hutchinsonians; a witch sitting on top of a crescent moon, pissing a cascade onto the rocks far below, on which lies a bound copy of 'Hutchin', and drowning a group of rats, some of which are gnawing at a bound copy of 'Newton' and a telescope
Title etched below image.
Date from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4089.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 243.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2016
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1763.
Etchings - England - London - 1763.
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