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 British
 Related author Aubry de La Mottraye French British

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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.

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 (British, London 1697–1764 London), Etching and engraving

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