The Politician

John Keyse Sherwin after William Hogarth

The Politician

London, J Boydell ca 1806

Etching and copper engraving,

375x290mm

£220

From the collection of George Morant, (1770 – 1846) of 95 Wimpole St, London. A very fine set on mostly uncut sheets kept loose in a folio. Carefully printed and in very good condition.

Morant was a collector and Founder of a business of paper hangers, carvers, gilders and picture frame makers.

The company had offices at 88 Old Bond St,  from 1814, and was appointed as ‘house decorator, carver, gilder & picture-frame-maker to His Majesty’. From 1832 he was appointed again by Her majesty Queen Victoria

Hogarth’s amusing sketch, originally executed for his friend Ebenezer

Forrest (d. 1783). A bespectacled politician, possibly a portrait of a Mr

Tilson a lacemaker in the Strand,  sits at a table reading his newspaper so

intently that he fails to notice that he has carelessly set fire to the brim

of his tricorne hat with the candle which he hold in one hand.