France Plate 1st
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1756
Artist: William Hogarth FRSA (British, 1697 - 1764)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 330 × 405 mm (33 × 40.5 cm)
Mount: 345 × 432 mm (34.5 × 43.2 cm)
Medium: paper, ink
Object number: P.2018.38.M
DescriptionDesigned and etched by Wm Hogarth. Published according to Act of Parliament March 8th 1756.
A scene beside a tavern ("La Sabot Royal") on the coast of France with a group of soldiers preparing to set sail for England; a soldier is roasting frogs over a fire on the blade of his sword and a monk is feeling the edge of an axe which he is putting on to a horse-drawn sledge laden with instruments of torture, a figure of St Antony and a plan for a monastery.
(see BM S,2.136)
A scene beside a tavern ("La Sabot Royal") on the coast of France with a group of soldiers preparing to set sail for England; a soldier is roasting frogs over a fire on the blade of his sword and a monk is feeling the edge of an axe which he is putting on to a horse-drawn sledge laden with instruments of torture, a figure of St Antony and a plan for a monastery.
(see BM S,2.136)
