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- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1793]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.00.00.03 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait; he is painting Thalia, the Comic Muse who holds a satyr's mask in her left hand and a book in her right hand. After the state without "Comedy 1764" on the pillar. Hogarth is seated in a chair leaning forward toward the easel, looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat; he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife; the pot of oil on the floor in front of the chair. A volume of prints and a burin can be seen in a niche in the wall behind the easel. Leaning against the leg of the easel is a volume with a print protruding from its pages and no title (in the original it is identified as "Analysis of Beauty").
- Description:
- Title engraved below image. and Date from other prints by Dent in the British Museum online catalogue.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764,
- Subject (Topic):
- Painting, Muses (Greek deities) in art, Artists, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > William Hogarth [graphic]