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- Creator:
- Ireland, Jane, active 1792-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.216.2 Box 135
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Orator Henley christening a child, after an oil sketch by Hogarth; the cleric stands holding the infant over a large, empty baptismal font, with the mother beside him to left. To his right stand a man who holds his hat and a stout woman, while in front a child, wearing a plumed hat and standing on tiptoe, reaches into the font, tipping the shallow bowl and spilling the water
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue; printmaker Jane Ireland's full name etched in lower right, replacing her initials "J.I." on earlier state., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.) for note about a related work by Sympson, page 310.
- Publisher:
- Samuel Ireland?
- Subject (Name):
- Henley, John, 1692-1756
- Subject (Topic):
- Baptisms, Children, Clergy, Fonts, Infants, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Orator Henley christening a child [graphic]