Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3

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Title: Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
Alternative Title: Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Ireland?
Abstract: "A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate 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, 1702.
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 14.8 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 15.8 x 23.6 cm
Edition: [Plate no. '3' re-engraved over a '1'].
Language: English

Genre: Aquatints England London 1794
Material: etching and aquatint in sepia ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
Viviani, Count.
Subject (Topic): Coffehouses
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Viviani, Count
Coffehouses
England > London > 1794
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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