Jack in an office, or, Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots [graphic] : a ticket for the [scored line] / Hogarth delt. ; Saml. Ireland fecit.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.2 x 22.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
"Price 6d."--Lower right edge.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 213.
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 porter carrying a large number of chamber pockets towards a house on the right, walking ahead of a sedan chair, with guards on the steps and others holding back crowds and several figures climbing over a high brick wall running alongside the road to the house."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Chamber pots
Courtyards
Crowds
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Sedan chairs
Soldiers

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- 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 91K(b) Box 130

Orbis Record:

9838218

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22496

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030837

PID:

digcoll:2807342