[The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[March 1737]

Physical Description:

2 prints on 1 sheet : etching on laid paper ; sheet 225 x 175 mm

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Notes:

Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson.
Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text:
Etching on two plates, one for image and one for receipt text. Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW

Abstract:

A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Dandies--British.
Food vendors.
Laughter.
Orchestras.
Snuff.
Theater audiences.
Theaters.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Hogarth, William,--1697-1764--Ms. notes.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1737.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1737.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio
75
H67
800
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

12445900

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26111a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 1949
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 130

OID:

16193902

PID:

digcoll:4048327