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. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S. Ireland?
Abstract: "A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner.
Traces of burnished text below series title.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1702.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 4.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.1 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Aquatints England London 1794
Material: aquatint in sepia ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
Viviani, Count.
Subject (Topic): Coffehouses
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Viviani, Count
Coffehouses
England > London > 1794
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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