Item Summary

Depicts a laughing theater audience. Originally a receipt ticket for Southwark Fair and The Rake's Progress, this state was bound with three other prints and sold as "Four Groups of Heads."

Descriptive Information

Title
The laughing audience / attributed to William Hogarth.
Call Number
D North 53/GC113/Box 01/Normal GA 2024.00851
D North 53/GC113/Box 01/Normal GA 2024.00852
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8p58pt47z
Publisher
1733, 1737.
Language
English
Date Created
1733-1737
Extent
1 print : etching.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1: Stamp on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95."
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1: Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Paulson 130
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton copy 1: Fourth state.

Discovery Information

Subject
Theater audiences—England—Caricatures and cartoons
Theater audiences—England—Early works to 1800
Laughter—Caricatures and cartoons
Laughter—Early works to 1800
Prints, British—18th century
Prints, British—Early works to 1800
Caricatures
Prints
etchings (prints)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/77683b79-5618-43ee-909b-1ffa9305f8f9/manifest