Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3

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Title: Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
Alternative Title: Dr. Garth. Pope
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A game of draughts ended; four men at a table, the figure on left is in full bottom powdered wig, standing, with cane on table, his three-cornered hat beside him, the players, seated opposite each other in the centre, and to right, a figure standing with his left hand raised; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth
Description: Title from text in image. Series title etched below image; series number in upper right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1701.
Ms. annotation: plate number altered in black ink from '3 ' to "4".
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 15.3 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Aquatints England London 1794
Material: aquatint in sepia ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic): Coffehouses
Board games
Subjects: Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Coffehouses
Board games
England > London > 1794

Access: Public
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