Frontis-piss [graphic]

Description

Title: Frontis-piss [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Copy after a Hogarth's design for a frontispiece to a pamphlet against the Hutchinsonians; a witch sitting on top of a crescent moon, pissing a cascade onto the rocks far below, on which lies a bound copy of 'Hutchin', and drowning a group of rats, some of which are gnawing at a bound copy of 'Newton' and a telescope
Title etched below image.
Date from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4089.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 243.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Copy.
On page 199 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
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Witches
Subjects: Witches
18th century
England > 1763
England > London > 1763
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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