[Sir Robert Fagg bribing a woman] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Sir Robert Fagg bribing a woman] [graphic].
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Sympson, Joseph, active 1710-1750, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1734]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by J. Sympson, print seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane
Abstract: Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, M.P. for Steyning, Susses and a Baronet, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket
Description: Title from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
For possible Hogarth attribution see: Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself. London : J.B. Nichols and son, 1833, p. 312.
Cf. No. 2023 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Annotated on verso in an unidentified hand: original state.
Title, "Sr. R. Fagg & the Gypsy," added in an unidentified hand below image.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1734
Etchings England London 1734
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fagg, Robert, Sir, -1740
Subjects: Fagg, Robert, Sir, -1740 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1734
England > London > 1734

Access: Public
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