[A lapland hut] [graphic] / Wm. Hogarth sculp.

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

[London]
[A. de La Mottraye]
[1727]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 26.0 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 27.3 x 36.4 cm

Related Links:

Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 42
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 33

Notes:

Title, publisher, state, and date from Paulson.
One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa.
"Tom. 2. No. XIV."--Upper right corner.
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:

A scene in Lapland shows a typical house, clothing, and customs. Figures are numbered; the key is provided in the text (see v. 2, p. 282-98). The house (no. 1) is a tent with a door through which you can see a woman cooking over a fire. To left of the tent is a small house in a tree used for drying fish (no. 4); a woman carries a baby in a traditional carrier (no. 5); in the back ground on the right is a 'magic' drum (no. 9); other figures demonstrate sleds drawn by reindeer, skis, milking, etc.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Cookery
Dogs
Drums
Houses -- Lapland
Infants -- Lapland
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743
Milking
Mothers -- Lapland
Reindeer
Skiing
Sleds & sleighs

Topics:

Lapland -- Description and travel

Language:

English

Genre:

Book illustrations
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1727

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 80K(b) Box 225

Orbis Record:

9875640

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22393

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030718

PID:

digcoll:2807230