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Tailpiece to the catalogue
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · [ca. 1761]
This print was designed by Hogarth as a tailpiece to an artist's catalogue. It shows a monkey watering dead exotics of past ages, the implication being that too many works of art are thought to be "good" merely because they are old.
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