Our various task, in emblem here display'd, Reader, behold; and whence we have our aid, Apollo dictates, or isnpires the song, while warbles sweetly from the Muses tongue ... [graphic].

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Description

Title: Our various task, in emblem here display'd, Reader, behold; and whence we have our aid, Apollo dictates, or isnpires the song, while warbles sweetly from the Muses tongue ... [graphic].
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [ca. 1730]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Apollo before a group of female musicians
Description: Title from first line of text below image.
Formerly attributed to Hogarth.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.).
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
On page 5 in volume 1.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 235 x 127 mm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Allegorical prints
Etchings England London 1730
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Apollo
Muses (Greek deities)
Subjects: Apollo (Deity)
Muses (Greek deities)
England > London > 1730
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Access: Public
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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 12446480
Object ID (OID): 16193745