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- Title:
- Paul before Felix Burlesqued
- Date:
- 1751
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 1/2 × 26 1/8 inches (49.5 × 66.4 cm), Plate: 10 3/8 × 14 inches (26.4 × 35.6 cm), Image: 9 7/8 × 13 1/2 inches (25.1 × 34.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "62453"; lower left: "I. | 1930.164"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "1930.164 | 967."
Stamped mark on verso, lower right: Yale University Gallery of Fine Art
Lettered above image, upper center: "PAUL BEFORE FELIX."; inside image, upper left: "SPQR"; center left: "We have | found | this | Man | a Pestilent | Fellow, a mover | of Sedition | among the | Jews"; center left: "ringleader | of the Je-"; lower right: "FELIX"; lower left: "Most Noble Felix | with all thankfulness"; lower left: "Seeing that | by thee we | enjoy great | quietness, and that | very Worthy deeds are | done by thy Providence | we accept it always an- | in all places | of the | - - nes"; below image, lower center: "Design'd & Etch'd in the rediculous manner of Rembrant, by Wm: Hogarth." lower right: "Publish'd According to Act of Parliament May 1st. 1751."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.515
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:40004
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Elizabeth Einberg, The age of Hogarth, British painters born 1675-1709 , vol. 2, Tate Gallery, London, 1988, p. 137, cat. no. 112, ND466 T38 1988 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]