[A country vicar's fire-side] [art original].

Description

Title: [A country vicar's fire-side] [art original].
Alternative Title: Country vicar's fireside
Creator: Wigstead, Henry, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1786]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: "In front of a roaring fire sits a stout old cleric in a powdered wig, with a clay pipe in his mouth and a pot of hot toddy on the trivet. On the other side of the hearth sits his old wife, and [...] a pretty daughter with a book on her lap, to which she pays more attention than to the curate or schoolmaster, who is making love to her in the intervals of using the billows."--Paston, G. Social caricature in the eighteenth century
Description: Title, artist, and approximate date from the 1786 exhibition catalogue of the Royal Academy.
Unsigned. Misattributed to William Hogarth in the 20th century.
In a period carved and gilded swept frame.
Design was engraved (in reverse, with minor changes) by Edward Williams, with the resulting print published in 1788 by John Raphael Smith. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.7119.
Provenance: Christie’s, King Street, where consigned on 20 March 1957; 3 May 1957, lot 81, as William Hogarth, ‘Figures before a fireplace’; Private Collection, United States; Sotheby’s, New York, Old Master & 19th Century European Art, 27 January 2012, lot 486; Private Collection, United Kingdom. Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Haveron Fine Art, March 2025.
Extent: 1 painting : 61 x 74 cm, framed to 81 x 95 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content