[Parson's head] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Parson's head] [graphic].
Creator: Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1781?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title, printmaker, date and artist from Dobson.
Supposed to have been intended for one of the series of "The happy marriage", p. 87. It was also reissued in Genuine works, iii, p.158.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top right: By Livesay. Ms. note beneath image: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 415.
Ms. note in pencil at bottom of print in another hand?: mentioned in the Life of Hogarth, engraved from a painting by that artist.
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 15.7 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Stipple engravings England London 1781
Material: stipple in brown ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: 18th century
England > London > 1781
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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