[Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title and state from Paulson.
State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv.".
Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.149, to Smith, Lisle Street [London, 1160]. Later owned by John Sheepshanks, whose bookplate is in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 2 March 1891 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 826, to Harvey. Maggs; 1925.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.5 x 15.7 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 18 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English
Latin

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title: Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... Plate 67. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Collection / Other Creator: Society of Artists of Great Britain. Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764]