Simon Lord Lovat (beheaded 1747) / [graphic]

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Title: Simon Lord Lovat (beheaded 1747) / [graphic]
Creator: Maddocks, W., printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [179-?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
Description: Title engraved below image.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801.
For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 254 x 158 mm, on sheet 304 x 261 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1790
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Subject (Topic): Obesity
Peerage
British
Jacobites
Rebellions
Subjects: Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747 > Caricatures and cartoons
Obesity
Peerage > British
Jacobites
Rebellions
England > London > 1790

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