Die Entdeckung [graphic]

Description

Title: Die Entdeckung [graphic]
Creator: Heintz, C. F., printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1833 and 1836]
Publication Place: Germany?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A German copy of Hogarth's "The Discovery" (1743?): a scene in a bedoom where four gentlemen stand beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain. The scene is thought to record a practical joke carried out on the lothario John Highmore by his friends: having arranged an assignation with an attractive young woman, they replaced her with a black prostitute. When he discovered the swap, on climbing into bed, they appeared from hiding. See Paulson
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker's name below image, right, most erased from this impression
After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155.
Date based on publication date of the Samuel Ireland copy of this Hogarth image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight lines of text below title: Ein Personalcaricatur! Ein gewisser Highmore, der im Spiel und mit Mädchen sein Vermögen durchgebracht hatte ...
Plate numbered "30" in upper right margin.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600.
Sheet laid on board.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; January 2021.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 19.3 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German