Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720. Plate 3 [graphic] / Hogarth delt. ; Sam. Ireland fecit.

Published/Created:
[London]
[S. Ireland?]
[ca. 1794]
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint in sepia, on wove paper ; sheet 15.1 x 20.5 cm
Notes:
Title from text in image. Series title below image; plate number in upper right corner.
Traces of burnished text below series title.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1702.
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Abstract:
"A game of draughts interrupted; four men at a table, on the left, Alexander Pope (?) standing with a paper in his right hand, at centre, the players (one of whom is said to be Dr. John Arbuthnot) in full-bottomed powdered wigs, to right, a man said to be Count Viviani in a long curling wig and cloak, his left hand resting on a stick; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth"--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant Titles:
Dr. Arbuthnot. Count Viviani
Associated Names:
Ireland, Samuel, -1800 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Attributed name]
Topics:
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Coffehouses
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Viviani, Count
Language:
English
Genre:
Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1794
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 794.00.00.168.2 Box 125
Orbis Record:
9837923
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22765
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
16035020
PID:
digcoll:2810941