| Artist |
William Hogarth
RKD
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|---|---|
| Title | The Company of Undertakers |
| Date | 1736 |
| Period | 18th century |
| Location | London TGN |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | coats of arms, heraldry in the depiction, bottom centre: ET PLURIMA MORTIS IMAGO |
| title in the depiction, bottom centre: The Company of Undertakers | |
| inscription below: ‘Beareth Sable, an Urinal proper, between 12 Quack-Heads of the second & 12 Cane Heads Or , Consul / -tant. On a *Chief *Nebulae, Ermine, One Compleat Doctor ifsuant, checkie sustaining in his / Right Hand a Baton of the Second. On his Dexter & sinister sides two Demi-Doctors, ifsuant of the second, & two Cane Heads ifsuant of the Third ; The first having One Eye conchant, to / wards the Dexter Side of the Esocheon ; the Second Faced per pale proper & Gules, Guardent. - / With this Motto – ET PLURIMA MORTIS IMAGO<br>*A Chief betokeneth a Senatour or Honourable Personage, borrowed from the Greeks, & is a Word signifying a Head ; & as the Head is the Chief Part in a Man, so the Chief in the Escocheon should / be a Reward of such only, whose High Merites have procured them Chief Place, Esteem, or Love amongst Men. Guillim<br>**The bearing of Clouds in Armes (saith Upton)doth import some Excellencie<br>Published by W. Hogarth, March the 3d, 1736 / Price Six pence | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1958-V-2 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Pycke, François Ghent 1958 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1958-V-2 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2615/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31F12
bones (symbol of Death)
Iconclass
42E271 undertaker, mortician Iconclass 42E274 burial association Iconclass 57BB2 Mockery, Derision, Irreverence; 'Derisione', 'Dispreggio della Virtu' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Rococo AAT |
| Hogarth's Graphic Works / Ronald Paulson. - London : The Print Room, 1989 (p. 100-101, nr. 144 (ill. p. 323)) |
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