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The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)
Title
[The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].
Edition
[State 3].
Publication
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [March 1737]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 183 x 166 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Summary
A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 07, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 1949
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 130
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1737.
Etchings - England - London - 1737.
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