[The farmer's return] [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- [The farmer's return] [graphic].
- Creator
- Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not before 1762]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
The interior of a farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (right) whose jug in her left hand spills out. To the left of the farmer, on either side of the table, are their two children, a son and daughter (gesturing in surprise as she looks at her mother). The hearth on the left is equipped with a pot hanging above a large fire; a rifle above the mantel piece, a cat on the floor gazing at the fire
- Description
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Title from another copy, signed by the printmaker Basire.
Plate to: Nichols's Genuine works of Hogarth. Ms. list in copy 3 makes notes of an “admirable copy by the same artist”.
Original used as a frontispiece to: Garrick, D. The farmer's return from London. London : Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand, MDCCLXII [1762].
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 240.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand in above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 374. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below image: Copy.
On page 189 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 19.7 x 15.5 cm
- Language
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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
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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18th century
England > 1762
England > London > 1762
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
- 12822409
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194165
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