An answer to the print of Iohn Wilkes Esqr. by Wm. Hogarth [graphic].

Published/Created:
[London]
Sold in Leicester Fields
[6 May 1763]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 33.8 x 21. 7 cm
Notes:
Title engraved below image.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
"Price 6 pence"--Following imprint.
Suckling; February 1960; Acquisitions no.: 960-2-1-16.
Mounted on sheet: 36.2 x 23.2 cm.
Abstract:
"An etching of Hogarth seated at a table, holding in one hand a port-crayon, in the other his print of "John Wilkes E", to which satire this is a rejoinder. Tied to Hogarth's right elbow, as if it were an impediment or guide in the use of his skill, is a bag marked "300£ per ann for distorting features"; he has a pug nose, and an impudent, hard look; his feet are cloven like a satyr's; one of his legs is that of a satyr, and it tramples on the cap and spear of Liberty. His dog 'Trump' squats under the table, on which is a paint-pot containing "Colours to blacken fair carachters [sic]". A palette and sheaf of brushes hang off the collar of the Hogarth's dog; on the palette is the "Line of Beauty". The bag refers to Hogarth's appointment as Serjeant-Painter to the King. Behind Hogarth, an ape appears in the act of drawing or measuring a "Line of Beauty" on a canvas set on an easel. Likewise behind on the left, an ugly, skeletal, old, one-eyed woman in a fontange, her lean bust much exposed, holds a mirror and a fan. The woman may be a reference to Mrs. Hogarth. An owl is drawn on the back of Hogarth's chair.
Variant Titles:
Answer to the print of John Wilkes Esqr. by William Hogarth
Topics:
Artists
Artists' materials
Dogs
Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Owls
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Language:
English
Genre:
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1763
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1763
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 763.05.06.01 Box 111
Orbis Record:
11917138
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr02377
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
10713207
PID:
digcoll:940860