[After] [graphic] / invented, engraved & published Decmbr. [the] 15th 1736 by Wm. Hogarth pursuant to an act of Parliament.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[15 December 1736]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 398 x 323 mm

Related Links:

Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 142

Notes:

Title and state from Paulson.
"Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence."
Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

Abstract:

Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Boudoirs
Canopy beds
Chamber pots
Couples
Cupids
Dogs
Fireworks
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Seduction
Sex
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761
Women

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1736
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1736
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1736

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Kinnaird 23K(b) Box 210

Orbis Record:

9866502

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22356

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030681

PID:

digcoll:2807194