[Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- published according to act of Parliament May 7 1761.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title and state from Paulson.
Quote from Juvenal etched below image: Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's Bbook, 3d edit. p. 373.
On page 188 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 19.3 x 14.1. - 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 19.4 x 14.4 cm
- Edition
- [Version 2].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Allegorical prints
Engravings England London 1761
Etchings England London 1761 - Material
- etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Art - Subjects
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Britannia (Symbolic character)
Art
England > London > 1761
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > 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
- 9816234
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194159
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