[Boys peeping at nature] [graphic].

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Description

Title
[Boys peeping at nature] [graphic].
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created
[March 1730, that is, 1731]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Wm. Hogarth
Abstract

Subscription ticket for "A harlot's progress" with three naked putti, one painting, one engraving, and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of many-breasted Diana of Ephesus

Description
Title, printmaker, state, and date from Paulson.
Verse in Latin from Horace's Ars poetica below image: " ... necesse est. Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, dabiturque Licentia sumpta pudenter. Hor."
Lettered below the verse with subscription receipt: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] a half a guinea being [the] first payment for two six prints of a Harlot's progress which I promise to deliver when finish'd, on one half guinea more."
Pencilled notes in Steevens' hand. Above a group of three: Boys Peeping at Nature, a Receipt for the Harlot's Progress. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d Edit. p. 188. 319. On mount sheet, below print: Very scarce,
On page 57 in volume 1. Plate cropped below design to: 103 x 125 mm, mounted to 139 x 140 mm.
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 148 x 126 mm, on sheet 205 x 164 mm
Edition
[State 2].
Language
English

Collection Information

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

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Tickets
Etchings England London 1731
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Seals 18th century
Material
engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Diana (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic)
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Art
Painting
Putti
Subjects
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Diana (Roman deity)
Art
Painting
Putti
England > London > 1731
18th century
Forrest, Ebenezer, fl. 1774 > Ownership
Heard, Isaac, Sir, 1730-1822 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Autograph
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Ms. annotations
Hussey, Giles, 1709-1788 > Autograph
Webb, Francis, 1735-1815 > Correspondent

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11317498
Object ID (OID)
16193904

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