[Royalty, episcopacy, and law] [graphic] / Hogarth delt. ; S.I. fecit.
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800 printmaker
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Molton & Co.],
[ca. May 1788] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 23 x 16 cm
- Notes:
- Title and imprint from Paulson.
Text continues : as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brouhgt to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse exactly engraved from the objects, whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c.
Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 56 - Abstract:
- Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel.
- Variant Titles:
- Some of the principal inhabitants of the moon
- Topics:
- Allegorical prints.
Bishops.
Law & legal affairs.
Rulers. - Topics:
- 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
Etchings--England--London--1788.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1788. - Format:
- Image
- 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:
- 75
H67
800 v.3
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 12756881
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26371
- OID:
- 16194344
- PID:
- digcoll:4047652
