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Title:
Strolling actresses in a barn Object 1
Collection Title: Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection
Accession Number: 1959.2609.000.000
Creator: Hogarth, William
Place of birth: England
Creation Date: 1738
Object Category: prints
Medium:
etching, engraving
Technique:
intaglio
State: unknown state
Dimensions:
Type Height Width Depth Diameter Unit (Lengths) Weight Unit (Weight)
image 42.2 54 cm
sheet 44.2 56.3 cm
Inscription: inscribed l.l.corner, printed: "Invented, Painted, Engraved, & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March the 25 1738, According to Act of Parliament."
Other Inscriptions: inscribed bot. c., by an unknown hand in pencil: "1st Impression"; bot. c. by an unknown hand in pencil: "2 Shallow [illegible]; bot. c. by an unknown hand in pencil: "Strolling Actress"; l.c. printed: "Frayedys/Farce/Farces." inscribed l.l., printed: "Company of Comedians from/ The Theatres at London/ at the GEORGE INN This/ Present Evening will be presented/ THE DEVIL to Pay in HEAVEN/ Being the last time of Acting Before y e/ Act Commences."
Catalogue Raisonne: Paulson 1989 150.II; Paulson 1965/70 156.II
Credit Line: Baillieu Library Print Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton 1959.
Narratives:
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Hogarth in the Baillieu: precedents and projections a study of the Hogarth print collection of the University of Melbourne Bailleu Library
History of the Virtual Print Room print collection