This plate representing portraits of the members of a Society of Artists that existed about the year 1730 is engraved from an original sketch in oil by William Hogarth in the possession of the publisher in which reference is made to the names of the chara

Published/Created:

London
Published May 1, 1829 by W.B. Tiffin, 3, Hay Market
[1 May 1829]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 322 x 354 mm, on sheet 347 x 389 mm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-198.
Dobson. Hogarth, 1902, p. 233.

Abstract:

"Portrait group of the Society of Artists; men gathered around a table in a fine interior, some seated, attended by servants; with portraits of Grinling Gibbons, William Kent, John Michael Rysbrack, Gawen Hamilton, Marcellus Laroon, Michael Dahl, John Vanderbanck, and Charles Bridgman; a landscape painting on wall in background, a curtain to the right, after Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Society of Artists

Associated Names:

Sawyer, Richard [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Tiffin, Walter Benjamin, 1795-1877 [Publisher]

Topics:

Artists -- British
Society of Artists of Great Britain [[depicted

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1829
Group portraits
Portrait prints

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:

Hogarth 829.05.01.01+ Box 210

Orbis Record:

11763496

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22592

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034700

PID:

digcoll:2810204