Characters who frequented Button's coffee house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
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Description
- Title
- Characters who frequented Button's coffee house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
- Alternative Title
- Martin Folkes
- Creator
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
- Published / Created
- [1794]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Faulder and Egerton
- Abstract
-
Two men are seated at a table, the elder (on the left, identified as Martin Folkes) looks through his eyeglasses at a watch, a paper headed 'Votes of the Common' is on the table in front of him. On the right a younger man (identified as Addison) sits across from him, his left arm casually draped over the back of his bench; on the table in front of him is a bowl; he holds a spoon in his right hand, his hat on the seat beside him. After a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth. See British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from text in image above the two figures.
Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, v. i, p. 31.
Figures labeled with names: Martin Folkes and the other largely obscured by burnishing.
On page 232 in volume 3. Printed in brown-ish ink on wove paper, sheet trimmed to: 14.8 x 20.4 cm. - 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.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 14.3 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 15.3 x 20.6 cm
- Edition
- [State with Addison's name burnished out].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Aquatints England London 1794
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching and aquatint in sepia ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England.
- Subject (Name)
-
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754. - Subject (Topic)
- Coffeehouses
- Subjects
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Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754
Coffeehouses > England
England > London > 1794
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11417173
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194288
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