Ticket for Tiverton School Feast, 1740 - Engraving after W. Hogarth - 19th C.
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19th-century engraving, copy by William Hogarth. Paper dimensions: 22.5 x 30.2 cm.
19th-century engraving reproducing the ticket designed by William Hogarth for the Tiverton (Devon) school feast of 1740, lettered below "TICKET FOR TIVERTON SCHOOL FEAST, 1740". Within a rococo cartouche crowned by a fountain, an allegorical female figure welcomes the schoolboys before a library, while another waters a small tree in an urn; in the background are the school buildings and boys reading.
The banderoles carry the Latin mottoes "In patriam populumque fluxit" and "Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgit honos". Signed in the plate "W. Hogarth pinx." and "J. Moore sc.".
Medium: Engraving.
Artist / after: After William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Engraver: J. Moore.
Date: 19th century (original design of 1740).
Dimensions: Sheet 8.9 x 11.9 in (22.5 x 30.2 cm).
Condition: Good condition; clean paper, lightly ivory-toned, with wide margins.
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19th-century engraving, copy by William Hogarth. Paper dimensions: 22.5 x 30.2 cm.