A Native Dance, Smyrna
Maker
(artist)
1697-1764
(engraver)
1697-1764
1697-1764
(engraver)
1697-1764
Title
A Native Dance, Smyrna
Date of Production
(in two English editions) 1723 & 1732
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 34.6 cm
Width: 34.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2066
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
William Hogarth made this print early in his career to illustrate a travel book by the French author Aubry de la Mottraye (c. 1674-1743). Hogarth himself never left England, and his depictions of peoples from other lands is filtered through the lens of the writings and images of others. The figures of the Greek dancers depicted here derive from images found in an earlier book, Recueil de cent estampes représentant differéntes nations du Levant (A Collection of One Hundred Prints Representing Nations of the Levant, 1712-13). Hogarth's print adapts figures found in an illustration by the French engraver Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, adds others, and places them in a landscape.
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & recto : figures are numbered : 1-7 //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : W [colon] m Hogarth Sculp. //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : W [colon] m Hogarth Sculp. //
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