William Hogarth

Her sale, London, Cock’s, 28–29 May 1746, lot 49 to Mr Birch;

John Birch, surgeon of Essex Street, Strand, until 1814 or later;

The Rev. Robert Gwilt (1811–1889), by 1843;

Sold by order of his executors, London, Christie’s, 13 July 1889, lot 95, for £215 to Davis for C. Fairfax Murray;

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919);

Louis Huth (1821–1905), 28 Hertford Street, Mayfair and Possingworth Park, East Sussex;

His sale (‘Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Fine Pictures and Drawings of Louis Huth, Esq. Deceased’), London, Christie’s, 20 May 1905, lot 104, for £1,312–10s. to Agnew, on behalf of

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927), 20 May 1905;

Thence by descent.

J. B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, revised ed., London 1782, pp. 216–17;

J. B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, revised ed., London 1785, pp. 259–60;

J. B. Nichols and G. Steevens, The Genuine Works of William Hogarth, 3 vols, vol. II, London 1810, pp. IV and 158, vol. III, London 1817, p. 173;

J. B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, London 1833, p. 358;

A. Dobson, William Hogarth, 7^th revised ed., London 1907, p. 202;

R. B. Beckett, Hogarth, London 1949, p. 74, no. 140;

G. Martelli, Man of his time. A life of the First Earl of Iveagh, London 1957, p. 356;

G. Baldini and G. Mandel, L’Opera completa di Hogarth pittore, Milan 1967, p. 106, no. 142;

R. Paulson, Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times, 2 vols, London 1971, vol. I, pp. 466–67, reproduced fig. 180;

M. Webster, Hogarth, London 1979, pp. 97–100, 108 and 185, no. 129, reproduced;

R. Paulson, Hogarth, 2^nd revised ed., 3 vols, Baltimore and Cambridge 1991–93, vol. II, pp. 203–4, reproduced fig. 85;

J. Egerton, Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode, London 1997, pp. 8–9, reproduced in colour;

K. Chrisman, ‘Mary Edwards’s Taste and High Life’, in Costume, no. 35, 2001, pp. 11–13, reproduced in colour;

D. Donald, Followers of Fashion: graphic satires from the Georgian period, exh. cat., London 2002, p. 23;

C. Molineux, 'Hogarth's Fashionable Slaves: Moral Corruption in Eighteenth-Century London', in ELH, Summer 2005, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 498–500, 502, 507–509 and 513, reproduced from the engraving, fig. 2;

R. Simon, Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain, London 2007, pp. 41–42 and 48, reproduced from the engraving, pl. 37;

S. Schotland, 'Africans as Objects: Hogarth's Complex Portrayal of Exploitation', in Journal of African American Studies, June 2009, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 149–50 and 160, reproduced from the engraving, fig. 1; 

D. Bindman and H. L. Gates Jnr (eds), The Image of the Black in Western Art. Part 3 The Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, MA and London 2011, pp. 163–64, reproduced in colour fig. 157;

K. Chrisman-Campbell, ‘“He is not dressed without a muff”: Muffs, Masculinity and la mode in English Satire,’ in E. Mansfield and K. Malone (eds), Seeing satire in the eighteenth century, Oxford 2013, p. 140, reproduced from the engraving, fig. 6.4;

E. Einberg, William Hogarth. A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2016, pp. 246–48, no. 163, reproduced in colour;

A. Insley and M. Myrone (eds), Hogarth and Europe, exh. cat., Tate, London 2021, pp. 168 and 214, reproduced in colour.

ENGRAVED

In etching, published anonymously in 1746; and in stipple by Samuel Philips in 1798, published by John Boydell, London 1808

London, British Institution, The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds together with a selection of Pictures by Ancient, and Deceased, English Masters, June 1843, no. 149 (lent by Robert Gwilt);

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, An Exhibition on Behalf of the Artist’s General Benevolent Institution, November–December 1913;

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art c. 1000–1860, 1934, no. 61;

London, Tate Gallery, William Hogarth 1697–1764, 1951, no. 56 (lent by the Earl of Iveagh);

London, Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode, National Gallery, 1997, no. 2;

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Hogarth, 18 October 2006 – 7 January 2007, no. 74;

London, Tate Britain, Hogarth, 7 February – 29 April 2007, no. 74;

Barcelona, Caixa Forum, Hogarth, 29 May – 26 August 2007, no. 74;

London, Tate Britain, Hogarth and Europe, 3 November 2021 – 20 March 2022, n.n.