Hei! Degeror O! I am undone [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[publisher not identified],
[betwee 1724 and 1727] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 18.6 x 24 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Artist unidentified.
Date 1727 by Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, (3rd ed.), p. 48. Dated "ca. 1724" in the British Museum catalogue.
According to John Nicholls in his Biographical anecdotes of William Hogarth (1785, p.134), this print inspired Hogarth's "Masquerades and Operas" (British Museum satires no. 1742), but the reverse may be the case.
"Price 1 shilling."--Lower left.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- "Satire on John Heidegger and the taste for the masquerades which he promoted. A London street scene in the foreground of which Heidegger sprawls on the ground, his watch and coins falling from his pocket, as he begs mercy of Hercules. Hercules, clad in a lion skin, raises his club threateningly; with his right hand he holds a chain encircling a large group of masqueraders, some of whom have their hands tied behind their backs, their props or accessories are scattered on the ground; other masqueraders climb out of the windows of the building behind. On the left, Piety, Wisdom and Britannia emerge from a church followed by clergymen; beggars ask for alms, one holds a dog on a lead who rushes towards Heidegger. Mercury flies overhead holding a scroll lettered, "The Masquerade destroyt".
- Topics:
- Britannia (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
City & town life.
Clergy.
Costumes.
Dogs.
Masquerades. - Topics:
- Heidegger, John James,--1659?-1748.
Hercules--(Roman mythological character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, atrributed name.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Engravings--England--London--1724.
Etchings--England--London--1724.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1724. - 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.1
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 12696435
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26081a
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1747
- OID:
- 16193829
- PID:
- digcoll:4048169
