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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, 4 Sep. 1758.
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 65 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the bottom row four bewigged judges, three of whom are asleep, are seated on the bench in Westminster Hall. In the top row are eight caricatured heads, two representing one of the judges below, the others, two versions of the lame man in Raphael's Sacrifice at Lystra (extreme left) and apostles in Leonardo's Last Supper. The lengthy text explaining the character, caracatura, and outrè etched on a second separate plate below image plate
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State from Paulson., Print made from two plates; image and text on separate plates., and The judges were identified by Nichols (Biographical anecdotes) as William Noel, Sir John Willes, Henry, Earl Bathurst, and Sir Edward Clive. See British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Noel, William, 1695-1762, Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, and Clive, Edward, Sir, 1704-1771
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Caricatures, Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Sleeping, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bench of the different meaning of the words character, caricatura and outrè in painting and drawing / [graphic]