T01800 The Enraged Musician 1741
Etching and engraving 332×405 (13 1/16×15 11/16) on paper 465×619 (18 5/16×24 3/8); plate-mark 364×414 (14 5/16×16 1/4)
Writing-engraving ‘THE ENRAGED MUSICIAN.| Design"d, Engrav"d & Publish"d by W m . Hogarth Nov br . the 30 th . 1741. According to Act of Parliament. ’
Transferred from the reference collection 1973
PROVENANCE Unknown
LITERATURE Paulson 1970, I, pp.184–6, no.158, II, pl.170
The engraving (according to Paulson, this is the third state) is related to a monochrome oil sketch in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from which however it differs in several details. The ...
