Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British, Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court, 1781
- Title:
- Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court
- Date:
- 1781
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/4 × 18 1/8 inches (26 × 46 cm), Plate: 8 1/2 × 14 inches (21.6 × 35.6 cm), Image: 7 × 13 3/4 inches (17.8 × 34.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image, lower center: "Mr. Walpole in his Anecdotes of Painting &c. Vol. IV. p. 22, speaking of the Cartoons at Hampton | Court, observes that Sir James Thornhill "having made copious studies of the heads, hands | and feet, inteded to publish an exact account of the whole, for the use of students: but this | work has never appeared." | As the present plate was found among others belonging to the late Mr. Hogarth, it | is not impossible but that it might have been engraved by him for his father-in-law Sr. James's | intended publication. | Published as the Act directs May 14. 1781, by Mrs. Hogarth, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2019.24.12
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:82097
- Export:
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