Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
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Description
- Title
- Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. [graphic] / Plate 3
- Alternative Title
- Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
- Creator
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1794]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Samuel Ireland?
- Abstract
-
"A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1702.
On page 232 in volume 3. Printed in brownish ink, sheet trimmed to: 15.5 x 19.9 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 : plate mark 14.8 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 15.8 x 23.6 cm
- Edition
- [Plate no. '3' re-engraved over a '1'].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Aquatints England London 1794
- Material
- etching and aquatint in sepia ink ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
Viviani, Count. - Subject (Topic)
- Coffehouses
- Subjects
-
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Viviani, Count
Coffehouses
England > London > 1794
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11417200
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194289
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