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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British, Hogarth Engraving His Master's Shop-bill the Sign of the Angel, 1817
- Title:
- Hogarth Engraving His Master's Shop-bill the Sign of the Angel
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Drawings to Illustrate the Life of Hogarth
- Date:
- 1817
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 11/16 inches (32.9 × 24.6 cm), Image: 7 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (18.4 × 14.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: "W H"; inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 2. | Hogarth engraving his Master's | Shop-bills the sign of the Angel"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.790
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boy | depiction | genre subject | interior | man | shop | watercolor
- Associated People:
- William Hogarth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12500
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Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp.127,129, fig. 7, CT21 J85 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Tessa Violet Murdoch, A glimpse of the apprentice William Hogarth engraving his master's shop-bill : the sign of the angel, Silver Studies, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 63-65, fig. 1, V 2571 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Tessa Violet Murdoch, Europe divided : Huguenot refugee art & culture, V&A Publishing, p. 52, no. 32, DA125.H84 M87 2021+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
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