Characters who frequented Button's coffee house about the year 1720. Plate 2 [graphic] / Hogarth delt. ; S. Ireland fecit.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[not before 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : aquatint in sepia on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 20.8 cm

Notes:

Title from text in image above the two figures.
Series title etched below image; plate number in upper right corner above image.
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).
Mounted with another image: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl.1.

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.

Variant Titles:

Martin Folkes. Addison

Associated Names:

Ireland, Samuel, -1800 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Attributed name]

Topics:

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Coffeehouses -- England
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1786

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 89K(a) pl. 2 Box 130

Orbis Record:

9837897

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22486

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030827

PID:

digcoll:2807331