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This week on #DailyHogarth images of Billy H, starting w/ WE Edwards after WP Frith Hogarth before the Commandant at Calais @britishmuseum 1860. Arrested as a spy, H told if there had been no peace between GB & Fr he wd have been hanged 'immediately on the ramparts.' NB H's pug🐕
Today's #DailyHogarth another unused design "The industrious 'prentice when a merchant, giving money to his parents" 4 Industry & Idleness 1747. H's early biographer, John Nichols says the image was intended to follow Pl 8 where Goodchild has 'grown rich' both pics @britishmuseum
Today's #DailyHogarth engr for Richard Leveridge's Song Collection @britishmuseum 1727, w/ a maid offering this book to Venus (Love) & Bacchus (Wine). Singer & composer, RL's career spanned 60 yrs working w/ Purcell, Handel & penning Roast Beef of Old England pic @FoundlingMuseum
Today's #DailyHogarth Characters & Caricaturas subscription ticket for Marriage A-la Mode @royalacademy 1744. This copy, signed & sealed by H, is written out to Thomas Herring AB of York, whose portrait by H @Tate the prelate declared ‘None of my friends can bear' 🧐 (see 29 Mar)
Today's #DailyHogarth frontispiece for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy engr Ravenet @britishmuseum 1760. Dr Slop snoozes, Walter Shandy & Uncle Toby smoke, while Corp Trim stands 'his knee bent, but that not violently-but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'😉
Today's #DailyHogarth William Jones FRS @NPGLondon 1740. Son of Angelsey yeoman farmer, WJ was a gifted mathematician thru which he met Sir Isaac Newton. In honour, H may have used J Vanderbank's portrait of Sir I @TrinCollCam as a model see @artukdotorg 👇https://t.co/nKMhX5nwyz
Today's #DailyHogarth fab unused drawing associated w/ Industry & Idleness (see 21 & 27 May) @britishmuseum 1746-47. Here Tom Idle steals from his loving ma, standing at the door of Fowlers Cooke Shop w/ various meats & pies displayed at open windows & a steaming pot on the stove
Ben's first wife & John's mother was Yorkshire-born portrait painter Sarah Curtis (1676?-1743), who trained with Mary Beale before establishing her own practice in Covent Garden at the tender age of fifteen. For her lovely portrait of Ben @NPGLondon see👇https://t.co/3c9coDGDRJ
Today's #DailyHogarth is James McArdell's fab mezzotint after H's Rembrandt-style portrait of friend & engraver John Pine (original @BeaverbrookAG c.1755). H used JP as model for the friar in Calais Gate (1748 engr 1749) leading to the nickname "Friar Pine". Prints @britishmuseum
Today's #DailyHogarth is a question of identification. Left, a lovely portrait by Billy @walkergallery 1744/5, currently described as an unknown woman & right, L-F Roubiliac's splendid marble bust of Arabella Aufrere (private collection) pic @CourtauldStudy the suggested sitter