Tailpiece to the catalogue

This print was designed by Hogarth as a tailpiece to an artist's catalogue. It shows a monkey watering dead exotics of past ages, the implication being that too many works of art are thought to be "good" merely because they are old.

Photograph

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id
5138jv39s
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contentType
photograph
stage
stage
normalized
year
year
1761
rights
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
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English
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identifierLocal
18_06_000110
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Boston Public Library
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1
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