Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 16 1/8 inches (35.6 × 41 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center right: "R Justian | Card-Maker | to ..."; inside image, lower left: "Lent to | Ld. Cogg | 500 --"; below image, lower center: "Gold, Thou bright Son of Phoebus, Sourse | Of Universal Intercourse; | Of weeping Virtue sweet Redress, | And blessing Those who live to bless; | Yet oft behold this sacred Trust | The Fool of avaritious Lust, | No longer Bond of Humankind, | But Bane of every virtuous Mind. | What Chaos of such Misuse attends! | Friendship stoops to prey on Friends; | Health, that gives Relish to Delight: | Doubt & Mistrust are thrown on Heaven, | And all its Power to Chance is given. | Sad Purchace, of repentant Tears, } | Of needless Quarrels, endless Fears, } | Of Hopes of Moments, Pangs of Years! } | Sad Purchace, of a tortur'd Mind, | To an imprison'd Body join'd!"; lower right: "Invented Painted & Engrav'd by | Wm. Hogarth, & Publish'd June ye 25 1735 According to Act of Parliament. | Sold at ye Golden Head in Leicester Fields London: | Plate 6."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1416
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)