William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1732

Height:

47.9 cm  (18 7/8 in.)

Width:

35.2 cm  (13 7/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This portrait includes, in the background, an outdoor arcade with the figure of a uniformed sentry standing beside flags and two drums.

People as subjects

William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

45B31
guard duty, keeping sentry
45C21
(military) uniforms
45C9
military music
45D1
military flags and standards
48C1621
arcade ~ architecture

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729] (two)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Beckett, Ronald Brymer. William Hogarth 1697-1764: catalogue of an exhibition arranged by the Arts Council of Great Britain upon the occasion of the Festival of Britain 1951: held at the Tate Gallery, London, 29th June-29th July (London: Tate Gallery, 1951) 25, pl. 28.

British painting in the eighteenth century: an exhibition under the gracious patronage of Her Majesty the Queen: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Toronto, the Toledo Museum of Art, 1957-1958 (London: The British Council, 1957) 42, 80, no. 30.


Colley, Linda. Crown pictorial: Art and the British monarchy (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1990) 30, 31, no. 51.

Notes

Dated, lower left: "1732"

RIdIM record id

6241