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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British, Hogarth Painting His Picture of Captain Coram for the Foundling Hospital, 1817
- Title:
Hogarth Painting His Picture of Captain Coram for the Foundling Hospital
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1817
- Medium:
- Pen and brown ink, black ink, gray ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 11/16 inches (32.9 × 24.6 cm), Image: 8 × 5 1/2 inches (20.3 × 14 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 13 | Hogarth painting his | picture of Capt Coram for the | Foundling Hospital"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.801
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- canvas | depiction | genre subject | interior | model | painter
- Associated People:
- William Hogarth
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12523
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Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 127,131..., fig. 18, CT21 J85 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Tessa Violet Murdoch, A glimpse of the apprentice William Hogarth engraving his master's shop-bill : the sign of the angel, Silver Studies, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 63-65, V 2571 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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