Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
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6th March 1749
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39190i
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Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Only the friar is fat, all other denizens of Calais are emaciated, the cook is struggling under the sirloin of beef; representing the folly of the French as their addiction to fashion and to the Church of Rome

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6th March 1749.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 34.4 x 44 cm

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O roast beef of Old England & c. ; Painted by W. Hogarth ; engraved by C. Mosley & W. Hogarth. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 6th 1749

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, pp.139-140 [180]

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39190i

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After a painting is in the Tate Gallery, London

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