Medium
engraving
Measurements
33.9 × 26.2 cm (image) 38.5 × 29.2 cm (plate) 39.4 × 29.5 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
William Hogarth was famously – or, rather, infamously – bound to his dog. The adoration he felt towards his pug, Trump, is well documented throughout the artist’s career. Trump appeared in a number of Hogarth’s works prior to his 1745 self-portrait The painter and his pug. The pug was not a popular breed among men at the time, and Hogarth was unfortunately mocked by critics for his love of the unusual-looking dog.
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Paulson 181 (copy)
Printing/Publishing
published by G. G. & J. Robinson, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Painted by W. Hogarth.
printed in ink l.r.: Engraved by T. Cook
printed in ink l.c.: GULIELMUS HOGARTH. / Published June 1.st (st in superscript above . ) 1801 by G.G. & J.Robinson Paternoster Row London,-
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.r.: The / Line of Beauty
Accession Number
889-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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