Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate I

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Title: Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate I
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, printmaker.
Published / Created: [5 March 1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Description: Title engraved above image.
"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue.
On page 167 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 38.5 x 50.1 cm.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 38.8 x 50.1 cm, on sheet 43.0 x 57.1 cm
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1753
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Anatomy
Art education
Artists
Figure drawings
Sculpture
Subjects: Anatomy
Art education
Artists
Figure drawings
Sculpture
England > 1753
England > London > 1753
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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