Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In margin upper right: No.V., Subject is the controversy surrounding variolation vs. vaccination for smallpox., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Vaccination controversy.
"The Committee" made up of members of Parliament who are depicted here seated around a table, their hats hung on the wall behind them; two members standing and debating; to the left, standing in doorway, a man wearing a long cloak, holding a staff. The sheet of paper on the table reads "The League & Covenant." The doorway is on the left as it appears in the original drawing
Alternative Title:
Committee and Comittee
Description:
Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '10' in upper left corner., Nineteen lines of verse in three columns, below image: And now the saints begin their reigh, For which they'd yearn'd so long in vain ... He thus began his tale by fits, See the remainder under the next print., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
"The Committee" made up of members of Parliament who are depicted here seated around a table, their hats hung on the wall behind them; two members standing and debating; to the left, standing in doorway, a man wearing a long cloak, holding a staff. The sheet of paper on the table reads "The League & Covenant." The doorway is on the left as it appears in the original drawing
Alternative Title:
Committee and Comittee
Description:
Title engraved above image., Reversed copy of the first state of Hogarth's The committee. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 91., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered '10' in upper right corner.
