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Time Smoking a Picture

Maker

After
(artist)
1697-1764

(etcher)
1765-1840

Title

Time Smoking a Picture

Date of Production

(c.) 1800

Medium

etching
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6122.65

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Bindman, David, Hogarth and his times: serious comedy, London and Berkeley 1997
no. 55 on p.113

Inscriptions

Inscription: W. Hogarth pinx. //

Inscription: 73. //

Inscription: R. Sc. //

Inscription: As Statues moulder into Worth P: W: / To Nature and your Self appeal, / Nor learn of others, what to feel. Anon: //

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