University LibraryPrint Collection

Title:

The company of undertakers

Object 1

Collection Title:

Baillieu Library

Accession Number:

1995.3206.000.000

Creator:

Hogarth, William

Place of birth:

England

Creation Date:

1736

Object Category:

prints

Medium:

etching

Technique:

intaglio

State:

second state

Dimensions:

Type	Height	Width	Depth	Diameter	Unit (Lengths)	Weight	Unit (Weight)
image (sheet trimmed to image	25.9	18			cm

Inscription:

signed bot. c., printed: "Publish'd by W. Hogarth March the 3 d. 1736."; inscribed l.c., printed: "ET PLURIMA MORTIS IMAGO."; inscribed bot. c., printed: "The Comany of Undertakers."

Other Inscriptions:

inscribed, l.l. corner, handwritten in ink: "Q 131." inscribed l.l. corner, printed: "Beareth Sable, an Urinal proper, between 12 Quack-Heads of the second & 12 Cane Heads Or, Conful -/ -tant. On a *Chief **Nebuloe, Ermine One Compleat Doctor ifsuant, checkie sustaining in his/ Right Hand a Baton of the second. On his Dexter and sinister sides two Demi-Doctors, ifsuant/ of the second, & two Cane-Heads ifsuant of the third; The first having One Eye conchant, to/ wards the Dexter Side of the Esocheon; the Second Faced per pale proper & Gules, Guardent. -/ With this Motto - Et Plurima Mortis Imargo."; inscribed l.l. corner, printed: "* A Chief betokeneth a Seanatour or Honourable Personage, borrowed from the Greeks, & is a Word signifying a Head; & as the Head is the chief part in a Man, so the Chief [illegible]/ be a Reward of such only, whose High Merites have procured then Cheif PLace, Esteem, or love amongst Men. Gullin/ ** The bearing of Clouds in Armes... [illegible]."

Catalogue Raisonne:

Paulson 144

Credit Line:

Baillieu Library Collection, the University of Melbourne. Acquired 1995.

Narratives:

William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)

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