A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper, with the word "Thesaurus" written on the top. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., and This state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762.
A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper, with the word "Thesaurus" written on the top. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., This state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.7 x 15.2 cm, on sheet 22.5 x 16.5 cm.
A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, date, and publisher from Paulson., Sheet irregularly trimmed., State before the word "Thesaurus" written on the top page on which Morell is writing., Final state was used as the frontispiece to Morell's Thesaurus Graecae Poeses ... Eton : Joseph Pote ; London : T. Pote in Fleet Street, 1762., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Nicholls's book, 3d edit. p. 384., Ms. note in ink in James Basire's hand [?] beneath image: For the Revd Michael Lort from his respectfull humble Sert. James Basire., and On page 195 in volume 2.
Copy of Basire print after Hogarth: A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title, date, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no 2., Plate for: Nichols, J. Genunie works of Hogarth. London : Longman [etc.], 1807., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 239., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand under image: Copy., and On page 195 in volume 2.
