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Title(s)
Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.
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Published/Created
[London] : Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, [between 1771 and 1785]
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Physical Description
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2013 39
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Prints
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Notes
Title from top margin of print 1.
"Book 5" of 31 sets of prints published by Carington Bowles, 1771-1785. A contemporary advertisement for the series notes: "Various sets, or books, of beautiful and entertaining prints, on half sheets of fine demy paper; containing 12 prints in each. Price 3s. plain, or 8s. each book, finely coloured. Printed for and sold by the proprietor Carington Bowles, at his map and print warehouse, no. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London."
"Designed by William Hogarth.
Bowles, C. Carington Bowles's new and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans. London, 1784, page 145
BAC: British Art Center copy unbound, in contemporary (?) brown paper wrappers. Uncolored. Housed with the 30 other sets of prints in this series. With the printed advertisement (1 sheet) listing the 31 sets. -
Subject Terms
Caricatures and cartoons -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Conduct of life -- Humor -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800. | Satire, English -- Early works to 1800.
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Form/Genre
Engravings -- 1771-1785. | Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1771-1785.
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