Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml. Ireland / [graphic]

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Title: Debates on palmistry from an original sketch in oil by Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Saml. Ireland / [graphic]
Creator: Haynes, Joseph, 1760-1829, printmaker
Contributor: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, publisher.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1 February 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Abstract: "A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Mounted to 323 x 475 mm.
Provenance: Ex dono Guinevere (?) Butterfield from Chez Michel, Paris; May 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.5 x 38 cm, on sheet 31.0 x 45 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1782
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Armor
Fortune telling
Newspapers
Owls
Reading
Servants
Subjects: Armor
Fortune telling
Newspapers
Owls
Reading
Servants
England > London > 1782
England > 1782

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