Accession number
PML 146853.14b
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n.], Dec. 1, 1753.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson.
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchasers of Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the subscription ticket removed.
Library's copy mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchasers of Hogarth's "Analysis of Beauty".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the subscription ticket removed.
Library's copy mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 143 x 180 mm; plate mark: 165 x 194 mm; sheet: 231 x 205 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Etching shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known.
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