[The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].
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16193903
Description
- Title
- [The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [December 1733]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
-
Fourth state of a plate for a subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair" with the text burnished with only a couple of traces remaining. "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
With ms pencil note in Steevens's hand above: Retouched.
On page 57 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 214 x 177 mm with loss of receipt text. - 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 191 x 175 mm
- Edition
- [State 4].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Plate 62. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1733
Etchings England London 1733 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Dandies
British
Food vendors
Laughter
Orchestras
Smoking
Theater audiences
Theaters - Subjects
-
Dandies > British
Food vendors
Laughter
Orchestras
Smoking
Theater audiences
Theaters
England > 1733
England > London > 1733
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > 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
- 9883134
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193903