The Weighing House and two frontispieces to Tristram Shandy
Simon François Ravenet, French, 1706 - 1774
after William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764
after 1763
Etching on paper
Impression: 18 × 13 in. (45.7 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (52.1 × 39.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helen Farr Sloan
PR.952.135
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left, beneath each image: W. Hogarth, inv.t; lower center: Frontispieces to Tristam Shandy.
Provenance
Helen Farr Sloan (1911-2005), date unknown; given to present collection, 1952.
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