[A landscape] etch'd by Saml. Ireland from an original picture in his possession said to be the only landscape ever painted by Hogarth. [graphic]

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Title
[A landscape] etch'd by Saml. Ireland from an original picture in his possession said to be the only landscape ever painted by Hogarth. [graphic]
Creator
Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created
[1 March 1786]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published March 1, 1786 by W. Dickenson, No. 158 New Bond St.
Abstract

"A landscape, after a painting by Hogarth; a stream running through trees on the left and forming a pool on the right, with rocky banks which rise on the right, a town in the distance and two figures in the foreground, a woman who gestures at the water while looking back at a man sitting on the rocks"--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title and imprint from: Dobson, A. William Hogarth. London : William Heinemann, 1907, p. 269.
Dedication etched below image: "To the Right Honble. Earl of Exeter. An admirer of Hogarth & encourager of the arts this etching is inscribed by his Lordship's most obliged & obedient servt. S. Ireland."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d, edit, p. 415.
Laid in between pages 218 and 219 in volume 3. Sheet with thread margins: 23.1 x 32.2 cm.
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 24.0 x 31 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Landscape prints
Etchings England London 1786
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > London > 1786
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9838087
Object ID (OID)
16194251

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