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Maker(s):Hogarth, William
Culture:British (1697 - 1764)
Title:The Distressed Poet
Date Made:1736 March 3
Type:Print
Materials:etching and engraving on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:sheet: 15 5/16 x 17 3/4 in.; 38.8938 x 45.085 cm; plate: 14 1/16 x 16 1/16 in.; 35.7188 x 40.7988 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscribed in plate at lower right: Invented Printed Engraved and Published by Wm Hogarth March the 3rd 1736 According to Act of Parliament. Price 3 Shillings, inscribed in plate at lower margin: Students be save, with all his books around / Sinking from thought, a vast profound! / Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there; / then writ, and flounder'd on, in more despair. / DUNCIAD. Book I. Hind III
Accession Number:  SC 1923.7.51
Credit Line:Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Norton Bullard
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Man and woman seated in small room with a woman standing near the door holding a bill; poverty; the suffering artist; poetry

Label Text:
This print, a second state, contains four lines from the poem The Dunciad.

Subjects:
Engraving; Etching

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