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H Beard Print Collection

Print
10th February 1845 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coloured print of Garrick and Hogarth, or The Artist Puzzled. No. 5 of R. Evan Sly's new and amusing mechanical prints with 30 different views that can be seen through the picture frame on the floor. Including images of a dog, a woman and baby, a child with a stick, faces in profile, a balding man, soldiers carrying guns, women wearing bonnets, men wearing wigs or with white hair and a person playing the flute. Published in London by Evan Sly and T. Houlston.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleH Beard Print Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Hand coloured print, mechanical
Brief description
Coloured print of Garrick and Hogarth, or The Artist Puzzled. No. 5 of R. Evan Sly's new and amusing mechanical prints. Published in London by Evan Sly and T. Houlston on 10th February 1845, Harry Beard Collection.
Physical description
Coloured print of David Garrick and William Hogarth, or The Artist Puzzled. No. 5 of R. Evan Sly's new and amusing mechanical prints with 30 different views that can be seen through the picture frame on the floor. Including images of a dog, a woman and baby, a child with a stick, faces in profile, a balding man, soldiers carrying guns, women wearing bonnets, men wearing wigs or with white hair and a person playing the flute.
Dimensions
  • Height: 27.5cm
  • Width: 35.8cm
Credit line
Harry R. Beard Collection, given by Isobel Beard
Subjects depicted
Summary
Coloured print of Garrick and Hogarth, or The Artist Puzzled. No. 5 of R. Evan Sly's new and amusing mechanical prints with 30 different views that can be seen through the picture frame on the floor. Including images of a dog, a woman and baby, a child with a stick, faces in profile, a balding man, soldiers carrying guns, women wearing bonnets, men wearing wigs or with white hair and a person playing the flute. Published in London by Evan Sly and T. Houlston.
Other number
F.60-11 - H Beard collection numbering
Collection
Accession number
S.1067-2009

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Record createdJanuary 26, 2009
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