[Strolling actresses dressing in a barn] [graphic] / invented, painted, engraved, & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March the 25, 1738, according to act of Parliament.

Edition:

[State 4].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[25 March 1738]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 455 x 570 mm, on sheet 476 x 612 mm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2403
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 150
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 156

Notes:

Title and state from Paulson.
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth 's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-38. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.

Abstract:

"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Actresses
Barns
Cats
Chickens
Children
Costumes
Monkeys
Mythology
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Playbills
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Stage props
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1738
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1738

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Sotheby 38++ Box 310

Orbis Record:

9885209

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22261

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030578

PID:

digcoll:2808318