Le baptême domestique [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Le baptême domestique [graphic].
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not before 1736]
- Publication Place
- Amsterdam or Paris?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to right, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs
- Description
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Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed with loss of companion prints: Le serment de la fille qui se trouve enceinte and Convoi funèbre des Anglois.
A reverse copy after J.V. Schley's print made for: Picart, B. Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Amsterdam : Chez J. F. Bernard, 1723, between pages 90 and 91?
See reference to Schely print in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.
After William Hogarth.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
On page 11 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 16.4 x 21 cm
- Language
-
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works)
Etchings Netherlands - Material
- etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Baptisms
Couples
Infants - Subjects
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Baptisms
Couples
Infants
Netherlands
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12678924
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193773