Masquerade ticket [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Masquerade ticket [graphic]
- Creator
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- published March 1798.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- J. Ireland
- Abstract
-
Reduced copy of Hogarth's satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'A', 'a sacrifice to Priapus', an altar to Priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of Time is stabbed by a bishop and a butcher, his blood pouring into a bowl held up by a monkey in a surplice; opposite at right, burning hearts on an altar to Venus and Cupid decorated with doves and wigs; at the back of the room, a painting of a Bacchic subject, to either side shelves with jellies and cakes, labelled provactives, and two signs with the obscene pun 'Supper below'; to either side, 'B', two 'Lecherometers' in the form of barometers, at left labelled 'Expectation Hope Hot desire Extreem Hot Moist Sudden Cold', at right 'Cool Warm Dry Changable Hot moist Fixt'; above the design at centre, a clock with Heidegger's face at top, the hour hand 'Wit', the minute hand 'Impertinence', the second hand 'Nonsense', to either side a lolling unicorn and lion, stroking their tails between their legs. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
"Page 325". Upper right corner. From Ireland's Supplement to Hogarth illustrated.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 108.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand at bottom of print: From J. Ireland's Hogarth illustrated.
On page 46 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 20.4 x 26.6 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Admission tickets
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748
- Subject (Topic)
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Allegories
Animals
Goddesses
Gods
Erotica
Masquerades
Sacrifices - Subjects
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Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748
Allegories
Animals
Goddesses
Gods
Erotica
Masquerades
Sacrifices
18th century
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
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
- 12624795
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193862