File:A brush for the sign-painters (BM Cc,3.150).jpg
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A brush for the sign-painters |
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Description |
English: Satire on Hogarth and the 'Grand exhibition of the Society of Sign-Painters' organised by Bonnell Thornton in Bow Street from 22 April to 8 June 1762. Hogarth (A) is shown as a pug sitting at an easel on a close stool, lettered "Camera Obscura or Idea Box/Rubens.Van Dyke. Rembrant." from which protrudes a sheet of the St James's Chronicle (recently founded by Thornton); behind him stands Envy (B), perhaps intended as Mrs Hogarth, with snakes that bite his forehead ("a Motive") and hold his brushes; on the easel are two canvases, one with a version of his "Sigismonda", labelled "the Sign of a Heavy Heart", and another with a depiction of the fable of the ox and the frog; an owl (C) perches above defecating on Hogarth's palette from which protrudes the Line of Beauty, labelled "a Lame Principle"; behind the canvas are (D) "four Emminent Master Sign-Painters Compilers of a twelfpenny Catalogue, Retailers of Stale wit, and Comentaters on their own folly Vide St. James Cron.", one is a boy with his breeches down, the other a man represented as an ass wearing spectacles on whose head a bat defecates, another man with ass's ears and the fourth a clergyman (these presumably include Thornton and his associate George Colman); in the background to right, "Some obscure Journymen" (E) leave the scene and (F) "Mr - Mum" skips, holding a palette above his head; Folly (G) hovers above; on the left, a sign lettered, "Here we Expose our Heads & Hearts Price 1s." hangs avove a doorway lettered, "Exhibit/Bo" through which can be seen a man holding a club. Many references to the Book of Proverbs appear on labels throughout the image; title and key below. 1762
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Depicted people | Associated with: William Hogarth | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1762 date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
Cc,3.150 |
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Notes | See David Bindman, 'Hogarth and his times', BM 1997, cat.124 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-3-150 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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