Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833, British
Title:
Hogarth Painting His Picture of Captain Coram for the Foundling Hospital
Date:
1817
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, black ink, gray ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 11/16 inches (32.9 × 24.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 13 | Hogarth painting his | picture of Capt Coram for the | Foundling Hospital"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.801
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
depiction | genre subject | interior | model | painter | canvas
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Karen Junod, Writing the lives of painters, biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 127,131..., fig. 18, CT21 J85 2011 (YCBA)

Tessa Violet Murdoch, A glimpse of the apprentice William Hogarth engraving his master's shop-bill : the sign of the angel, Silver Studies, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 63-65, V 2571 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12523