Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law
Artist
William Hogarth
(English, 1697 - 1764)
Date1724
MediumEngraving
DimensionsPlate: 6 1/4 × 5 15/16 inches (15.88 × 15.06 cm)
Credit LineGift of Paul Gardner
Object number53-40
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Exhibition HistoryFifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 13.
Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 26, as Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law, dated 1724.
William Hogarth was the most celebrated caricaturist of mid-18th century England. In this print he makes fun of various British institutions mentioned in the title, presenting them like marionettes or automatons. He thus implies that such organizations can be somewhat mechanical and inhuman in the way they operate.
[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no 13.
Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, p. 4, as Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law, 1724.
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