Hogarth After His Wife had Put on a New Night Shirt, Ties up Her Things to Send to Sir James Thornhill with a Letter in Which He Told Him, 'He took His Daughter Without a Smock to Her A--e
Date:
1817
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 3/4 inches (32.7 × 24.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 5 | Hogarth after his wife had | put on a new night shift, ries | up her things to send to sir James | Thornhill with a letter in which | she told him "He took his Daughter | without a Smock to her a--e"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 127,133,134, fig. 10, CT21 J85 2011 (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)