A Lapland Hut (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 38)

William Hogarth|Aubry de La Mottraye

1723–24 · Etching and engraving · Drawings and Prints

A Lapland Hut (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 38) — William Hogarth|Aubry de La Mottraye

Hogarth made this print early in his career to illustrate a travel book by the French author Aubry de La Mottraye. We are shown a Lapland landscape, with sections devoted to a hut, figures and local customs. Numbered elements include: 1. a large tee-pee like tent with figures cooking within, 4: a small wooden structure built in a tree, for drying fish, 5: a woman holding a baby in a carrier, 6 and 11: men on skis, 8: a woman milking a reindeer, 9: a magic drum, 10: a sledge drawn across ice by a reindeer, 12: a man leading a reindeer.

Artist: William Hogarth|Aubry de La Mottraye
Date: 1723–24
Medium: Etching and engraving
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932

A Lapland Hut (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 38)

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