Hogarth's shop card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figure in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'W. Hogarth Engraver'. In an oval cartouche in the lower frame, "Aprill [the] 23 1720."
Alternative Title:
William Hogarth, engraver and Hogarth's shop card
Description:
Title etched within image., Imprint from volume for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (London, 1794-1799)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published for Samuel Ireland; by R. Faulder; T. Egerton; and B. White
