William HogarthEnglish, 1697–1764Vuurzee in Londen
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Vuurzee in Londen” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Dutch
Koning Hendrik VIII wakkert de brandhaard in de wereld aan met een blaasbalg terwijl hij op stelten staat. Onder hem juicht een groep mensen hem toe. De rest van de stad probeert het vuur te blussen of is gevlucht. De brandweermannen zijn gekleed als Schotten, soldaten en mariniers.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-18.714
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of William Hogarth
The whole life1712–1764 · Workplace
London
25 – 26 October 1764
His last day in Leicester Fields
On 25 October 1764 Hogarth, weak but cheerful, was taken from his villa in Chiswick to his home in Leicester Fields; he was still working, retouching “The Bench”. On 26 October he received a letter from Benjamin Franklin and drafted a reply; he boasted of eating a pound of beefsteaks for dinner, and that night, after suddenly vomiting, died in the arms of his servant Mary Lewis; John Nichols named an aneurysm as the cause, Horace Walpole “a dropsy of his breast”.
26 October 1764
Died
