Observations on the times [graphic].

Description

Title: Observations on the times [graphic].
Alternative Title: The Time. Pl. 1st
Published / Created: [1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Description: Title from text etched at top of second plate.
Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below.
"Price 6d."
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 6.1 x 6.6 cm and plate mark 15.3 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 22.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Humor
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Broadsides England London 1762
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic): Artists
Donkeys
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Humor
Artists
Donkeys
England > 1762
England > London > 1762
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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