Frontispiece to the Jacobites journal [graphic] / Hogarth invt. ; Rd. Livesay fecit.

Creator:
Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker, publisher.
Published/Created:
[London] :
Publish'd Novr. 27; 1781, by Rd. Livesay, at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields,
[27 November 1781]
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper ; sheet 17.6 x 23.5 cm
Notes:
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
CtY-LW
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2893.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 229.
Abstract:
A Scotch man and woman ride on an ass led by a monk walking to the left and holding its halter on which is supsended a copy of a newspaper "London evening post". The Scotch man is holding a glass in one hand and waving his cap with the other as he shouts "Huzza". She holds a sword and is also shouting. A book lettered with the word "Harrington" is tied to the ass's tail. In the distance is the skyline of London.
Variant Titles:
Headpiece for The Jacobite's journal
Topics:
Cityscapes.
Donkeys.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Newspapers.
Topics:
London (England)--Views.
Topics:
Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789, publisher.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Language:
English
Genre:
Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Aquatints--England--London--1781.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1781.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
75
H67
800 v.2
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Orbis Record:
12820870
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr26262a
OID:
16194198
PID:
digcoll:4047265