Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. Plate 4

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Title: Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. Plate 4
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, figure on left 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."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image. Series title etched below image; series number in upper right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1701.
Mounted with another print: Kinnaird 89K(a) pl. 3.
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): 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
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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