Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate II

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Title: Analysis of beauty. [graphic] / Plate II
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, printmaker.
Published / Created: [5 March 1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved above image.
State from Paulson.
Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. 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 42.9 x 54 cm, on sheet 46.0 x 57 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English