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• Author/Creator:Hall, Charles, 1720?-1783, printmaker.
  
• Title:[Mr. Bullock the comedian] [graphic] / Willm. Hogarth pinxt. ; C. Hall sc.
  
• Edition:[Working proof with "B' in title position, imprint in scratched letters].
  
• Publication:[London] : Pub. June 1st, 1781 by I. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market, [1 June 1781]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 16.0 x 12 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:On page 208 in volume 3.
    Ms. note in in pencil in Steevens's hand above row of three impressions of this print: William Bullock. See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d. edit., p 407.
    
  • Provenance:George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Hogarth 781.06.01.04.2 Box 112
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Noted on verso in pencil: 2nd state 'b'; Felbrigg p. 208. Mounted on paper watermarked 1885: Sheet 23.2 x 14.8 cm.
    Ms. note below image in contemporary hand: William Bullock.
    
  • Provenance:Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes:Title from published state. See British Museum online catalogue Registration number: K,58.77.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  
• Summary:Half-length portrait in oval, directed to front with head turned and looking three-quarters to right, wearing shirt with open collar, cloak draped over right shoulder and soft cap.
  
• Variant and related titles:William Bullock, comedian
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, no. 1, page 284
  
• Subjects:Bullock, William, approximately 1657-approximately 1740, depicted.
  Comedians.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Steevens, George, 1736-1800--Ownership.
  Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
  Portrait prints.
  Working proofs.
  Etchings--England--London--1781.
  
• Also listed under:Thane, John, 1653 or 1654-1727, publisher.
  Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.