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Tailpiece design for Society of Artists Catalogue 1761
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
picture
The Foundling Museum
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, WC1
October 2008
card
overall: 147 x 155 mm

Promotional exhibition card bearing reproduction of a detail from an etching by William Hogarth for the tailpiece to the catalogue of pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, in May 1761. Features a monkey-like figure wearing the clothes of a connoisseur - a wig, top-coat and sword, and carrying a magnifying glass whilst sprinkling three withered plants from a watering can. Printed in colour on square card with details of the temporary exhibition 'An English Interior' on the reverse.


2008.431

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