Title etched below image., Illustration for Milton's Paradise lost., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, p. 179.
Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at right with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the left, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the far left; a watchman on the right holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
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Title and date from Paulson, Questionable attribution to Hogarth, but Paulson is inclined to accept as an early work by Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., According to Samuel Ireland in his Graphic illustrations of Hogarth (v.1 , p. 9-10) Hogarth executed this design when he was under twenty on the lid of a tobacco box for a Captain Johnson., A copy by Ireland. Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, p. 8., Trimmed sheet., Ms. note I in Steevens's hand in pencil above image: Copy., and On page 180 in volume 2.
“A young winged figure, leaning against an oval cartouche on the left, facing front, lifting arms up and holding a festoon of laurel leaves above his head; after Biagio Rebecca; proof before letters.”--British Museum online catalogue
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Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1868,0822.1284., and On title page in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.