[Frontispiece to Cooke's Hesiod] [graphic]

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Title: [Frontispiece to Cooke's Hesiod] [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Jane, active 1792-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Abstract: An etching of a bust of Hesiod on a pedestal, facing left; with his name in Greek lettering
Description: Title from Paulson.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 85.
Copy of no. 112. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy.
On page 47 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 17.4 x 11.8 cm.
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 : plate mark 194 x 133 mm, on sheet 234 x 158 mm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1794
Material: aquatint and etching ;
Subject (Name): Hesiod.
Subjects: Hesiod
England > London > 1794
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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