Enthusiasm delineated [graphic]

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Description

Title
Enthusiasm delineated [graphic]
Creator
Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
Contributor
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Ireland, John, -1808, publisher.
Published / Created
[12 November 1795]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published Novr. 12th, 1795 by John Ireland (Author of Hogarth illustrated) No. 3 Poets Corner, Palace Yard, & for Messrs. Boydell, Cheapside & Shakespeare Gallery Pallmall
Abstract

Copy of Hogarth's print; interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners who include a woman swooning on the floor and a young couple embracing; many of the congregation are clutching figures of Christ; a barking dog with a collar labelled "Whitfield" echoes the preacher

Description
Title etched below image.
State from British Museum catalogue.
Lettered above the image with text beginning: Hogarth's first thought for the medley. Copied from a very curious print designed and engraved by Hogarth, of which there are only two impressions, both of them in the possession of John Ireland. March 15th 1796. [Image of hand with pointing finger]. After taking the above impressions, Hogarth changed the point of his satire from the superstitious absurdities of popery and ridiculous personification delineated by ancient painters, to the popular credulities of his own day, erased or essentially altered every figure except two, and on the same piece of copper engraved the plate now in the possession of Messrs. Boydell, entitled Credulity, superstition & fanaticism, a medley.
Dedication etched below title: Humbly dedicated to his Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, by his Graces most obedient humble servant Wm. Hogarth.
Text following dedication: Advertisement. The intention of this print, is to give a lineal representation, of the strange effects of literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books, &c.
Legend following advertisement: A. After Raphael Urbino. B. After Rubens. C. After Rembrant. D.E.F.G.H. Are imitations of several other painters.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2425.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See J. Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, p. 365.
On page 190 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 47.9 x 38 cm
Edition
[State 3].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Villiers, George, 1690-1748.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic)
Christianity
Superstition
Demonology
Demons
Ghosts
Witches
Sleeping
Supervisors
Subjects
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763 > Caricatures and cartoons
Villiers, George, 1690-1748
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Christianity
Superstition
Demonology
Demons
Ghosts
Witches
Sleeping
Supervisors
18th century
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12822475
Object ID (OID)
16194168

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