Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous for his daring escapes from multiple prisons in London
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
An elderly, rotund Lord Lovat is seated on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet. He is counting on his fingers the number of Scottish clans that fought with the Pretender in the rebellion. To his left is a table on which sits a book (entitled "Memoirs" in the original by William Hogarth) and quill pen in an ink bottle
Description:
Title engraved below image., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2801., and For a discussion of the original see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 166.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Peerage, British, Jacobites, and Rebellions
