[A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen] [graphic] / W. Hogarth pinxt. ; J. Sympson Junr. sculp.

Published/Created:
[London]
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
[ca. 1736]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 30.3 x 34.9 cm
Notes:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation.
Twelve lines of verse describing the scene etched below image: 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair, And makes his Market of the trading Fair; His Office Shelves with Parsh Laws are grac'd, But Spelling Books and Guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant Madam screens the real Sire, And Sally swears her Bastard Child for Hire Upon a Rich old Letcher, who denies The Fact, and vows the naughty Hussif [sic] lies; His Wife enrag'd, exclaims against her Spouse, And Swears she'l be reveng'd upon his Brows; The Jade, the Justice and Church Ward'ns agree, And force him to provide Security'.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
See reference in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Abstract:
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs.
Variant Titles:
Denunciation
Associated Names:
Sympson, Joseph, -1736 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Sympson, Joseph, -1736 [Publisher]
Topics:
Children
Couples
Courtrooms
Dogs
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Pregnant women
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Language:
English
Genre:
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1736
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1736
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Call Number:
Kinnaird 52K(b) Box 215
Orbis Record:
9867351
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22367
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
16030692
PID:
digcoll:2807182