Call Number: Sotheby 63 Box 100 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:: [December 1733]
Call Number:: Sotheby 63 Box 100
Collection Title:: Plate 62. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Fourth state of a plate for a subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair" with the text burnished with only a couple of traces remaining. "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title, state, publisher, and date from Paulson. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):: Dandies, British, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Smoking, Theater audiences, and Theaters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].