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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt., March 3d, 1764.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 764.03.03.02+ Box 200
- Collection Title:
- Plate 84. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The figure of Time reclines against a broken column surrounded by symbols of destruction: a collapsing church tower, dead trees, a bankrupcy notice served on Nature, a tombstone, a clock without hands, Phaeton falling from his chariot, a will, a shop-sign for "The World's End", a gallows, a burning impression of Hogarth's print "The Times" and broken objects, including an artist's palette, hour-glass, crown, rifle, bell, bottle, and broom. Two medallions on either side of the caption and their surrounding text concern the Line of Beauty. Three more columns of text between the medallions include quotes in Latin from Tactius and Maximus of Tyre, with an English translation
- Alternative Title:
- Bathos, or, Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures and Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures
- Description:
- Title, state, and publisher from Paulson., Title engraved above image: Tail piece. The Bathos., and 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 319 x 335 mm, on sheet 394 x 558 mm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Aesthetics, Death, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Signs (Notices), Time, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Tailpiece, or the Bathos] The Bathos, or Manner of sinking, in sublime paintings, inscribed to the dealers in dark pictures / [graphic]