The match maker [graphic]

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Title: The match maker [graphic]
Creator: Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: published March 1798.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Detail of the right side of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress; an older man sits at a table holding the hands of the two young people whose marriage he has just arranged. Only the forearms of the betrothed couple are shown
Description: Title etched below image.
Inscribed in plate at top right: Page 276.
Illustration from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth?
Not in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
On page 209 in volume 3.
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 10.7 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Betrothal
Couples
Marriage
Subjects: Betrothal
Couples
Marriage
England > London > 1798
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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