Hogarth Has Made Breakfast and Sends up a Cup to His Wife at the Same Time Ordering the Little Dog to be Admitted to her Mistress's Bedchamber
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 6 | Hogarth has made breakfast | and sends up a cup to his wife | at the same time ordering the | little dog to be admitted to her | mistresses bedchamber"
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, p.127,131,133..., fig. 11, 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)