Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate I
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Description
- 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.
Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 1 of Plate 2. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p. - Provenance
- Original mottled calf, with Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP¹) on title page; also with his pressmark B.3.28, altered to V.24 on front pastedown. Sold at the 1842 Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.148, to R. D'A. Newton, Esq. [London, 1331]; T. Thorp, March 1929, to R.W. Chapman, £2.2.0. Given to W.S. Lewis by Dr. Chapman.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 38.8 x 50.1 cm, on sheet 43.0 x 57.1 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3880
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- 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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9884724
- Object ID (OID)
- 33191001