[The search night] [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- [The search night] [graphic].
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1714?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
- Description
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Title and date from Paulson
Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245.
According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson.
Trimmed sheet.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Original.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: Impression from the top of Captain Johnson's tobacco.
Ms. note at bottom: Given me by the Right Honble William Windham.
On page 180 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 : oval design 7. 5, 11 x 11 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Engravings England 1714 - Material
- engraving ;
- Subject (Topic)
-
Pillories
Prostitues
Sex
Watchmen - Subjects
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Pillories
Prostitues
Sex
Watchmen
18th century
England > 1714
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
- 12820622
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194141
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