[Cockpit] [graphic] / design'd and engrav'd by Willm. Hogarth.

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
Published/Created:
[London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
publish'd according to act of Parliament Nov. 5th 1759.
Physical Description:
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 34.7 x 42 cm
Notes:
Title from Paulson.
Title engraved below image, on either side of an image of a rooster wtih the words 'Royal' and 'Sport' etched on either side: Pit ticket.
Abstract:
"Interior of the Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and forty male spectators ranging from a sow-gelder, a butcher, a black footman, coachmen and a sweep to the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (in the centre); on the wall to right, a framed picture of a stout woman, lettered "Nan Rawlings", seated with a cock on her lap."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant Titles:
Pit ticket
Topics:
Blacks,--depicted.
Butchers.
Chimney sweeps.
Cockfighting.
Cockfighting--Great Britain.
Dogs.
Gambling.
Nobility.
Servants.
Sports spectators.
Topics:
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Topics:
Bertie, Albemarle,--Sir,--ca. 1720-1765--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Language:
English
Genre:
Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Engravings--England--London--1759.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1759.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
Kinnaird
56K(b)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Hogarth 759.11.05.01++ Box 305
Kinnaird 56K(b) Box 215
Sotheby 75+ Box 200
Orbis Record:
9868068
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr31244
Citation:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3706
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 206
OID:
15811634
PID:
digcoll:2792996