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- Title:
- 3 Characters, 4 Caricaturas: Subscription Ticket for "Marriage a la Mode"
- Date:
- 1743
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (28.3 × 24.1 cm), Plate: 10 1/4 × 8 inches (26 × 20.3 cm), Image: 8 × 7 3/4 inches (20.3 × 19.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "DC55"; in brown ink, lower center: "(Rec'd) May 4th. 1743. (of) Mat: Lamb: Esqr."
Wax seal of Hogarth with palette and brushes
Lettered below image, lower left: "Cartons"; lower center: "Raphael Urbin Pinx. | Cavl. Chezze del."; lower right: "Annibal Charraci invt. | Leonard da Vinci Pinx."; lower center: "3 CHARACTERS. | 4 CARICATURAS. | For a farther Explanation of the Difference Betwixt Character & Caricatura See ye Preface to Jo:h Andrews."; lower right: "W Hogarth Fecit 1743"; lower center: "Recd. - of - | Half a Guinea being the first Payment for Six Prints Called MARRIAGE | A LA MODE which I Promise to deliver when finish'd on Receiving half a Guinea more. | N.B. The price will be one Guinea and an half after the time of Subscribing."
Signed, lower right: Wm. Hogarth
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Chauncey B. Tinker, B.A. 1899
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.1138
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38042
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