[Cockpit] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Cockpit] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Pit ticket
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: "Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from Paulson.
Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.6 x 38.2 cm, on sheet 42 x 57 cm.
Plate 82 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction. Purchased by W.S. Lewis at Sotheby's, Miss M.A.E. Crofton sale, lot 341; 15 November 1960.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 31.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 34.7 x 42 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Plate 82. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764]