Sujet
'Time smoking a picture', 1761. Artist: William Hogarth
Légende
'Time smoking a picture', 1761. Subtitled 'As Statues moulder into Worth', a comment on the 18th-century idea that decay and patina were somehow evidence of genuine origin and true age. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection
Date
30 nov. 1999
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C25_011
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (3,6Mo) / 33,0cm x 38,0cm / 3895 x 4483 (300dpi)