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A brush for the sign-painters   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A brush for the sign-painters
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
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 274 millimetres
Width: 224 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Cc,3.150
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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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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