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The Company of Undertakers

Maker

(artist)
1697-1764

(engraver)
1697-1764

Title

The Company of Undertakers

Date of Production

1736

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2105

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




undertaker


Notes

1737 impressions from the cut plate were sold as one of a series of 'Four Groups of Heads' with Laughing Audience, Scholars at a Lecture, A Chorus of Singers and The Company of Undertakers. See also G.1990.WL.2024 and G.1990.WL.2024.2104

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & recto : : ET PLURIMA MORTIS IMAGO //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : The Company of Undertakers // Beareth Sable, an Urinal proper ...Imago. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : in very small lettering: A Chief betokeneth ... some Excellence. // Publish'd by W. Hogarth March the 3.d 1736 Price Six pence //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre mount & recto : later witt inscription : : W. HOGARTH //

Inscription: inscription : pencil: lower centre mount & recto : later witt inscription : : 1141 //

Inscription: inscription : pencil: lower right mount & recto : later witt inscription : : G.1990.WL.2105 //

Inscription: inscription : pencil: upper left mount & recto : later witt inscription : : C932/67 (23a) //

inscription : stamped : upper right corner on mount & recto : later witt inscription : : WITT/ LIBRARY //

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