[The Virgin and Child. Friar's foot] [graphic]

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Title: [The Virgin and Child. Friar's foot] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Friar's foot
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Faulder and Egerton?
Abstract: Two images. On the top: in an elaborate frame, the Virgin holds the swaddled Child; a bald man (monk?) looks down at the child from over her left shoulder. Below, a detail of the friar's foot, also in a frame, with a curtain pulled to the left side
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. 1, p. 127.
For original print see Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2157.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.0 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Aquatints England London 1794
Material: etching and aquatint in brown ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Subject (Topic): Monks
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Monks
England > London > 1794
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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