[Columbus breaking the egg] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Columbus breaking the egg] [graphic].
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table in the foreground; the cutlery is pushed off to one side
Description: Title, publisher, and state from Paulson.
Text engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over."
A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty.
With the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
Trimmed to the image; mounted on verso of title page in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty.
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 16.4 x 20 cm, on sheet 18.2 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English