William Hogarth

Acquired from the artist by William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex (1732–1799);

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 31 January 1777, lot 38 (as 'Hogarth. A humorous Scene with Sir John Falstaff'), for £36, to Garrick;

David Garrick (1717–1779), the great actor, theatre manager and impresario, and his wife, Eva Marie Veigel, Mrs Garrick;

Mrs Garrick's sale, London, Christie's, 23 June 1823, lot 20, for £46, to Charles Henry Core;

Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875), Dean of the Privy Council and member of the Cambridge Apostles, by 1874;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 2 May 1874, lot 59, for 380 guineas, to H.W.F. Bolckow;

Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow (1806–1878), M.P.;

His sale, London, Christie's, 2 May 1891, lot 106, for £1,525, to Agnew's, on behalf of Edward Guinness;

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

J.B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, London 1781, p. 65;

J.B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, London 1782, p. 99;

J.B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, London 1785, p. 99;

S. Ireland, Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, vol. II, London 1799, pp. 72–76;

J. Nichols and G. Stevens, The Genuine Works of William Hogarth, vol. I, 1808, p. 422;

J. Nichols and G. Stevens, The Genuine Works of William Hogarth, vol. III, 1817, p. 166;

J.B. Nichols, Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, 1833, p. 363;

A. Dobson, William Hogarth, 7th rev. ed., London 1907, p. 210;

R.B. Beckett , Hogarth, London 1949, p. 65, reproduced pl. 4;

W.M. Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist, Oxford 1959, pp. 35 and 44;

G. Baldini and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Hogarth pittore, Milan 1967, p. 87, no. 7, reproduced;

R. Paulson, Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times, London 1971, vol. I, pp. 183, 332 and 526, no. 20;

R. Simon, ‘Hogarth and the Popular Theatre’, Renaissance and Modern Studies, Nottingham, vol. 22, no. 1, 1978, pp. 12-25;

R. Simon, ‘Hogarth's Shakespeare’, Apollo, vol. CIX, no. 205, March 1979, pp. 214–16;

M. Webster, Hogarth, London 1979, p. 12, reproduced in colour, p. 14;

R. Paulson, Book and Painting: Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible: Literary Texts and the Emergence of English Painting, Knoxville, TN 1982, pp. 36–47, reproduced pl. 20;

P.H. Highfill, K.A. Burnim and E.A. Langhans, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800, 16 vols, Carbondale, IL 1973–93, pp. 114–20, reproduced;

D. de Marly, Costume on the Stage 1600–1940, London 1982, pp. 45–46;

R. Paulson, Hogarth: The Modern Moral Subject, 3 vols, Baltimore and Cambridge 1991–93, vol. I, pp. 159–65, reproduced fig. 52;

R. Simon, Hogarth, France & British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain, London 2007, pp. 74 and 115–16, reproduced in colour pl. X;

E. Einberg, William Hogarth: A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2016, pp. 74–75, no. 35, reproduced in colour.

London, British Institution, Pictures by the late William Hogarth, Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough and J. Zoffani, Summer 1814, no. 78 (lent by Mrs Garrick);

London, Royal Academy, 1875, no. 37 (lent by Henry Bolckow);

London, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, The Conversation Piece in Georgian England, 1965, no. 25;

London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals. Hogarth and British Painting 1700–1760, 1987–88, no. 82; 

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti and London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Shakespeare in Art, 16 February – 15 June 2003 and 16 July – 19 October 2003, no. 1;

Paris, Musée du Louvre; London, Tate Britain; and Barcelona, Caixa Forum, Hogarth, 18 October 2006 – 7 January 2007; 7 February – 29 April 2007; and 29 May – 26 August 2007, no. 37.