[Sketches from pen & ink drawings. No. 2] [graphic]

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Title: [Sketches from pen & ink drawings. No. 2] [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Jane, active 1792-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Six sketches of heads; the one on the right in the second row with the caption "hearing void of attention".
Description: Title from Dobson and ms. annotation on Steevens's impression.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 167.
cf. Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations, v.1 p. 144.
Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand at top of print: No. 2.
On page 230 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 15.6 x 23.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1794
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Caricatures
Faces
Subjects: Caricatures
Faces
England > London > 1794
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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