[Boys peeping at nature] [graphic].

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[March 1730 i.e. 1731]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 148 x 126 mm, on sheet 205 x 164 mm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1943
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 120

Notes:

Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson.
Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor."
Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more."
Lieut. Col. R. Sally sale, Sotheby's lot 286, 23 July 1962 to Pickering & Chatto for W.S. Lewis; August 1962; Acquisitons no.: 962-8-1-1.
With ms. annotations in William Hogarth's hand indicating the receipt of a half guinea from Ebenezer Forrest, with Hogarth's signature and seal. Mounted on a sheet with a fragment of a letter from Giles Hussey addressed to Jno. Webb at Sir Isaac Heard's, College of Arms, London and stamped with a redirect to Shaftsbury.

Abstract:

Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Art
Diana (Roman deity) [[depicted
Forrest, Ebenezer, fl. 1774
Heard, Isaac, Sir, 1730-1822
Hogarth, William
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Painting
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Putti
Satyrs (Greek mythology) depicted
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1731
Seals -- 18th century
Tickets

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:

Hogarth 731.00.00.02 Box 100

Orbis Record:

11317498

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22600

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034708

PID:

digcoll:2810231