Simon, Lord Lovat
Artist
William Hogarth
(English, 1697 - 1764)
Date1746
MediumEtching
DimensionsPlate: 14 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (36.2 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (36.83 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (36.83 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number58-70/24
On View
Not on viewCollections
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. 14.
Lord Lovat (1675?1747) was a Scottish nobleman and supporter of the Jacobites. the royal line of Stuart kings who, though replaced by the House of Hanover, still laid claim to the English throne. Lovat was involved in both Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745 and was later captured and executed. He was the last British nobleman to die for high treason. Hogarth, the leading British artist of his day, was famed as a caricaturist, and his insightful talent shows in the way he has exposed his sitter's contentious personality, as he sits ticking off points of argument on his fingers.
[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. 14.
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