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The match maker
Title
The match maker [graphic] / Wm. Hogarth invt. ; I. Mills sculp.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], published March 1798.
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 10.7 x 14 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Inscribed in plate at top right: Page 276.
Illustration from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth?
Not in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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.
Summary
Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2016
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
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