File:Print, frontispiece, satirical print (BM Cc,1.163).jpg
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Summary
print, frontispiece, satirical print
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| Artist |
After: William Hogarth
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| Title |
print, frontispiece, satirical print |
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| Description |
English: Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray. 7 May 1761
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| Depicted people | Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1761 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Collection |
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
Cc,1.163 |
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| Notes | The Society of Artists formed in 1761 in reaction to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce. Hogarth designed this frontispiece and an accompanying tailpiece for the catalogue, see Paulson 237; the cost was a shilling and included the entrance fee, the catalogue then serving as a season ticket. The first plates wore down quickly due to high demand for the catalogue and its Hogarth illustrations, and Grignion was employed to engrave second versions, for which see Cc,1.164, Cc,1.165. For the watering can, see also Paulson 104. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-1-163 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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