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Title:

Time smoking a picture

Object 1

Collection Title:

Baillieu Library

Accession Number:

1995.3203.000.000

Creator:

Hogarth, William

Place of birth:

England

Creation Date:

(1761)

Object Category:

prints

Medium:

etching

mezzotint

Technique:

intaglio

State:

First state

Dimensions:

Type	Height	Width	Depth	Diameter	Unit (Lengths)	Weight	Unit (Weight)
image	21.9	17.1			cm
sheet	23	18.2			cm
sheet (adhered)	29.1	23.5			cm

Inscription:

not signed, not dated.

Other Inscriptions:

inscribed u.l., printed: [Greek script] See Spectator/ Vol: II: Page 83."; inscribed l.l., printed: "Varnish."; inscribed l.r., printed: "As Statues moulder into Worth. P. W."; inscribed l.l. corner, printed: "To Nature and your Self appeal,/ Nor learn of others, what to feel, Anon:"

Catalogue Raisonne:

Paulson 208

Credit Line:

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

Narratives:

Time smoking a picture exhibition label

The naked print revealed

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