Enthusiasm delineated [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Enthusiasm delineated [graphic]
- Creator
- Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [March 1798]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published March 1798 for John Ireland, Poets Corner, Palace Yard
- Abstract
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Reduced 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 without "Whitfield" etched on it echoes the preacher
- Description
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Title etched below image.
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. After taking the above impressions, Hogarth changed the point of his satire from the superstitious absurdities of popery & ridiculous personification delineated by ancient painters, to the popular credulities of his own day, erased or essentially altered every figure except two, & on the same piece of copper engraved the plate which is copied on the opposite page.
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.
"Page 233"--Above image, right.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2425.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210.
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 20 x 13 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
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Villiers, George, 1690-1748.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 - Subject (Topic)
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Christianity
Superstition
Demonology
Demons
Ghosts
Witches
Sleeping
Supervisors - Subjects
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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
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
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
- 12822505
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194169
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