[Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]
Creator: Hibbart, William, 1725-1808, printmaker
Contributor: Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre, 1720-1791, artist.
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805, publisher.
Published / Created: 30 Dec. 1776, as the act directs.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by C. Anstey
Abstract: "Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George.
Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm.
Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his bookplate on half-title page of volume. Strawberry Hill Sale, v.186 (with Clark, Johnson, Moir, Piozzi, and Wallace), to Strong, £1.14.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 12029, for £1.11.6; Thorpe, 1842, to George Daniel, £1.11.6 (Daniel's note on fly-leaf); Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (Daniel Sale), lot 202, to Molini, £6.12.6; Sotheby's, 11 June 1895 (Orford Sale), lot 331, to Quaritch, £41; offered in Quaritch's Catalogues in 1895 and 1899; Sotheby's, 19 December 1900 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 597, to Cole, £31; Parke-Bernet, 5 May 1939 (Spoor Sale), lot 1109, to Edgar Wells for Arthur Houghton, $550. Gift of Arthur Houghton; November 1951.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.3 x 11 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 3069
Collection Title: Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Collection / Other Creator: Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Collection Date: London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.