Columbus breaking the egg [graphic].[between 1812 and 1817]engChristopher 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 sideTitle etched below image.After Hogarth's print of the same title.Date suggested by Isaac.Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge.Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.1 print : etching ; plate mark 16.3 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 18.6 x 26.5 cm.Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.