With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.
75 G795 773
Acquired December 2023
“Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: ‘Cock a doodle doo.'”–British Museum online catalogue.
817.00.00.24+
Acquired September 2023
“This work appears to have been issued in four montly parts, each of four plates between May and August 1816, before being published as a complete suite. An advertisement on the final leaf of the 1820 edition of John Cawse’s ‘Introduction to the art of painting’ shows that the work was still being issued in four parts at this late date, at a price of three shillings sixpence per part”–Cf. British Architectural Library.
Folio 75 P95 816
Acquired September 2020
A stout, bald man fallen on his back, supports himself with his one hand and one arm on the ground; one foot raised.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
Hogarth 788.10.00.01
Acquired April 2013