A prisoner of the Fleet being examined, by Hogarth

An image of A prisoner of the Fleet being examined before a committee of the House of Commons. Several sketches of fetters, etc. Hogarth, William (British, 1697-1764). Two sheets joined together. Recto: oil on paper. Verso: graphite on paper. Height 470 cm, width 596 cm, 1728-1729. Production Note: Sketch for the picture painted in the same year for Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, one of the Committee, subsequently in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle who gave it in 1892 to the N.P.G. Verso, presumably by Hogarth.

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A prisoner of the Fleet being examined before a committee of the House of Commons. Several sketches of fetters, etc. Hogarth, William (British, 1697-1764). Two sheets joined together. Recto: oil on paper. Verso: graphite on paper. Height 470 cm, width 596 cm, 1728-1729. Production Note: Sketch for the picture painted in the same year for Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, one of the Committee, subsequently in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle who gave it in 1892 to the N.P.G. Verso, presumably by Hogarth.

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Accession Number: 675
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 815 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 149.72kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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