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1. [The distressed poet] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1797]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 797.10.01.02++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Poverty' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet's head is a satirical print showing Alexander Pope thrashing the book-seller Edmund Curll who had published pirate editions of his work."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Studious he sate, with all his books around
- Description:
- Title from Paulson., Two columns each with two lines of verse engraved below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profund! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; Then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. Dunciad Book I, line III., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2309., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 145.
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 1st, 1797 by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Attics, Cats, Children, Crying, Dogs, Interiors, Milkwomen, Poets, Poverty, Sewing, Spouses, and Writing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The distressed poet] [graphic]
