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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British, Hogarth Having Been Followed by Barry and a Friend was Caught Backing a Boy to Fight Purposely to Catch His Fearful Countenance, 1817
- Title:
- Hogarth Having Been Followed by Barry and a Friend was Caught Backing a Boy to Fight Purposely to Catch His Fearful Countenance
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1817
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 11/16 inches (32.7 × 24.6 cm), Image: 7 5/16 × 5 1/4 inches (18.6 × 13.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 19 | Hogarth having been followed by | Barry and a friend was caught | backing a boy to fight-purposely | to catch his fearful countenance"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.807
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boys | depiction | fighting | genre subject | men
- Associated People:
- William Hogarth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12538
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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. 127,131,150, fig. 24, 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, V 2571 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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