[Mask and palette] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Mask and palette] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Subscription ticket for Garrick in the Character of Richard III
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Published / Created: [1745]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Hogarth's print for the subscription ticket for "Garrick in the Character of Richard III" with an image of a rolled manuscript, a laurel wreath, palette and mask suspended from a rope or piece of drapery
Description: Title, date, and printmaker from Paulson.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of receipt.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit., p. 281.
On page 122 in volume 2.
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 7.4 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Tickets
Seals (artifacts)
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1745
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: 18th century
England > London > 1745
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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