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. - 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' materials.
Artists.
Dogs.
Owls. - Topics:
- Hogarth, Jane Thornhill,--1709?-1789--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hogarth, William,--1697-1764.
Hogarth, William,--1697-1764--Caricatures and cartoons.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Wilkes, John,--1725-1797. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1763.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1763. - 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:
- Hogarth
763.05.06.01
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Hogarth 763.05.06.01 Box 111 - Orbis Record:
- 11917138
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26364c
- Citation:
- Bindman, D. Hogarth and his times, cat. 121
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4051 - OID:
- 16194331
- PID:
- digcoll:4047556
