Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- He is seated and holds in his right hand a metal, which rests on a round table on which is "The Royal Charter" of the Foundling Hospital. Before him lie his hat, a book, a globe showing the Western/or/Atlantic Ocean and a letter addressed to him. Behind him, between a drapery and a column, an indistinct statue (?) of a woman and child. In the left background a distant view of the sea with sailing vessels.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Print Maker
- William Nutter, British, 1754 - 1802
- After
- William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764
- Publisher
- Robert Cribb, British
- Date
- 1796
- Medium
- Stipple engraving with etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 54.8 × 34.4 cm (21 9/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
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