[Time smoking a picture] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Time smoking a picture] [graphic].
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [March 1761]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: Subscription ticket for "Sigismonda" with a figure of Time as an old winged man sitting on a broken statue, blowing pipe-smoke at a dark landscape painting on the easel in front of him and which he has pierced with his scythe; at the top of the frame of the painting is a Greek quote, preceded by the word "Crates' and ending with its identification: "See Spectator Vol. II: Page 83." On the floor to the left is a large jar labeled "Varnish".
Description: Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson.
Lettered within image in this state, the name "Crates" added to the top left of the picture frame. Lower right of image inscribed with quote: "-As statues moulder into Worth. P.W." Below a couplet, "To Nature and your Self appeal, Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon:".
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of subscription receipt.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 19 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 24 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Hogarth 761.03.00.01.2 Impression 1 Box 110
Collection Title: Plate 70. 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: Allegorical prints
Tickets
Etchings England London 1761
Mezzotints England London 1761
Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Material: engraving, etching, and mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Art
Subjects: Art
England > London > 1761
England > 1761
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership

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