Limited Edition: Nicola Bealing, 'Mulberries' (2016)

William Hogarth is said to have let local children pick mulberries from the tree in his garden. William and his wife Jane fostered Foundling Hospital children, so it's likely they enjoyed its fruit too. The tree still stands at Hogarth's House in Chiswick. 

Artist Nicola Bealing made this print exclusively for the Foundling Museum as part of her 2019 exhibition, A New Song (To An Old Tune). In the exhibition, Bealing’s work took as its starting point the subjects and narratives found within 18th-century broadside ballads – descriptive or narrative songs on popular themes, often sung or sold in the form of cheap sheet music in the streets. Vibrant, bawdy, surreal and humorous in its nature, her work bears many similarities to that of Hogarth’s, an artist she cites as having inspired her.

Polymer gravure print on Somerset satin paper.
55 cm x 55 cm
Unframed

Limited edition print of 50.
Signed and numbered by artist.