Variety [graphic]

Description

Title: Variety [graphic]
Alternative Title: Serpentine, or, Dolphin candlestick
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, Westminster
Description: Title etched above image.
Vignette from titlepage of John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated, vol. iii.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand above print: Serpentine or Dolphin Candlestick. See the title-page to Mr. John Irelandss Hogarth illustrated.
On page 231 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 11.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: 18th century
England > London > 1798
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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