[The distressed poet] [graphic] / invented, painted, engraved & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth March the 3rd, 1736 according to act of Parliament.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 2].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[3 March 1736] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 360 x 410 mm
- Notes:
- Title and state from Paulson.
"Price 3 shillings"--Following imprint.
Verse etched below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- IIn an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Poverty, a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirated editions of his letters."
- Topics:
- Attics.
Cats.
Children.
Crying.
Dogs.
Interiors.
Milkwomen.
Poets.
Poor persons.
Poverty.
Sewing.
Spouses.
Writing. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1736.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1736. - 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:
- Kinnaird
27K
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 27K Box 210 - Orbis Record:
- 9866515
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26133b
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2309
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145 - OID:
- 16193947
- PID:
- digcoll:4048522
