- Title:
- A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures
- Date:
- 1749
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm), Plate: 11 7/16 × 17 5/16 inches (29 × 44 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower left: "[...] Samuel Wale"; on mount, lower center: "-1749-"; on mount, lower right: "809/Evc/"
Lettered in black ink, upper center: “A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, WITH EMBLEMATIC FIGURES.”; lower left: “S. Vale delin. | Thro’ various Wilds and Scenes by Fortune tost | Few share her Smiles, whilst Multitudes are lost: | All own her Power, the Lowly and the Great, | But to conduct the slightly Orphans Fate,”; lower center: “Publish’d 14th. of April, 1749 according to Act of Parliament | To his Grace John Duke of Bedford; This Plate is humbly Inscrib’d by his Graces most Dutiful and Obedient Servant | Margrett Granville.”; lower right: “Grignion & Rooker Sculp | See where the Pious Guardians publick Care | Protects the Babe and calms the Mothers Fear | Inspir’d by Bounty, raises blest Retreats, | Which Fortune dooms, but Charity compleats.”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1112
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | buildings | children | gate | genre subject | goddesses | hats | infants | men | mothers | mythology | orphanage | statues | tricornes | walls | women
- Associated Places:
- City of London | England | Foundling Hospital | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Fortuna
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41678
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, p. 116, fig. 99, NJ18.H4888 R53 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]