About the Artwork
The Young Heir Takes Possession of the Miser's Effects
1735
William Hogarth
1697-1764
English
Unknown
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 14 × 16 inches (35.6 × 40.6 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 × 23 1/4 inches (47 × 59.1 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
72.226
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed in plate, lower right following last line of inscription: Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth, & | Publish'd June ye. 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament. Plate. 1. Bottom margin: [five verses of text, four lines per verse except the last which is of two lines only (as described fully by Paulson)]
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1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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William Hogarth, The Young Heir Takes Possession of the Miser's Effects, 1735, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 72.226.
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