[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.
Provenance: E. Matthews; November 1954. With Hogarth's annoations: Novbr. [the] 21 1752 Edward Saunderson Esqr. Also signed: Wm Hogarth.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.4 x 20 cm, on sheet 18.2 x 22 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Legends
Seals
Tickets
Subscription
Satires (Visual works) England 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Columbus, Christopher,
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Eggs
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher
Dogs
Eggs
England > 1753
England > London > 1753
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Autograph
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 > Ms notes
Saunderson, Edmond > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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