Analysis of beauty. Plate I [graphic] / designed, engraved, and publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th, 1753, according to act of Parliament.

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Description

Title
Analysis of beauty. Plate I [graphic] / designed, engraved, and publish'd by Wm. Hogarth, March 5th, 1753, according to act of Parliament.
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published / Created
[5 March 1753]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
[Wm. Hogarth]
Description
"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.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth 's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-95. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Title engraved above image.
Extent
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.8 x 50.1 cm, on sheet 43.0 x 57.1 cm
Edition
[State 3].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Sotheby 95++ Box 315

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1753
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1753
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1753
Resource Type
Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic)
Anatomy
Art education
Artists
Figure drawings
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Sculpture
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9884724
Object ID (OID)
16030592
More Information
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3217

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