[Strolling actresses dressing in a barn] [graphic] / invented, painted, engraved, & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March the 25, 1738, according to act of Parliament.

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.

Edition:

[State 4].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[25 March 1738]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 455 x 570 mm, on sheet 476 x 612 mm

Notes:

Title and state from Paulson.

Abstract:

"Nine actresses and four child actors dressed as classical deities preparing for a performance; among props and costumes are kittens playing with an orb and lyre, a monkey urinating in a helmet and a baby being fed by a child dressed as an eagle."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Actresses.
Barns.
Cats.
Chickens.
Children.
Costumes.
Monkeys.
Mythology.
Playbills.
Stage props.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, printmaker.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1738.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1738.

Format:

Image

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:

Sotheby
38++
Hogarth
738.05.00.01.4++

Orbis Record:

9885209

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30172

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2403
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 150
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 156

OID:

15947906

PID:

digcoll:2793022