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Satire on false perspective
Title
[Satire on false perspective] [graphic] / W. Hogarth inv. et delin. ; L. Sullivan sculp.
Edition
[State 1].
Publication
[London] : [John Joshua Kirby?], [February 1754]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 22.3 x 18.2 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from caption engraved below image.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Imperfect: 'W. Hogarth inv. et delin' erased from this impression. Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Etched above image: "Frontispiece."
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.
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.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Summary
"Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby, Dr Brooke Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy; a rural scene with a number of absurdities caused by perspectival errors, for instance, an angler in the foreground catches a fish in the middle distance, an inn sign is partly obscured by trees that are growing on the other side of a river, a woman leans from a window to light the pipe of a man on a distant hill."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Caption title: Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shown in this frontispiece
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 3254
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 232
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 239
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Engravings - England - London - 1754.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1754.
Frontispieces.
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