[Cockpit] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Cockpit] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Pit ticket
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: "Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from Paulson.
Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket.
Provenance: Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 31.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 34.7 x 42 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Sotheby 75+ Box 200
Collection Title: Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764]

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1759
Engravings England London 1759
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765
Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Cockfighting
Social life and customs
Blacks
Butchers
Chimney sweeps
Dogs
Gambling
Nobility
Sports spectators
Servants
Subjects: Bertie, Albemarle, Sir, ca. 1720-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Cockfighting > Great Britain
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century
Blacks
Butchers
Chimney sweeps
Cockfighting
Dogs
Gambling
Nobility
Sports spectators
Servants
England > 1759
England > London > 1759
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership

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