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., and 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.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
"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., and 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.
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
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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., and Trimmed to the image; mounted on verso of title page in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty.
