The foundlings [graphic]

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Title: The foundlings [graphic]
Creator: Mills, Isaac, 1770-1857, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd March 1798.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description: Title from caption below image.
Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798.
"Page 257"--Upper right corner.
Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225.
Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.0 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 23.3 x 14.2 cm
Language: English

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

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