Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
15th November 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/32
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    29/132 (page 955)
    10450 HOGARTH (William) Works : a fine series of the plates engraved by and after this great English master, including many in the first state, with later impressions added, to show the variations: in all 250 prints, neatly mounted on drab drawing paper, in four portfolios, £150. 1717-1803 This collection has been made up of fine clean copies, with the margins intact ; as a rule, Hogarth’s early prints are usually found cut down, and damaged by smoke, from the fact of their being framed and hung up in London. The following are the principal features of this fine set: Rape of the Lock, circa 1727, small outline engraving from a snuff box. Ireland supposed that only three copies of this engraving were taken off; one sold at Gulston’s sale in 1876 for £33. Beggar’s Opera, fine proof before letters. Harlot’s Progress, first state with the cross; second, ditto. Midnight Modern Conversation, first state in red. Rake’s Progress, first and second set. Before and After, fine wmpressions. Strolling Actresses, first and second state. Sleeping Congregation, three states Distrest Poet, first and second state. Enraged Musician, first and second state. Marriage a la Mode, two sets in early states. The Times, with the rare second plate. Good Samaritan, fine proof before letters and the small plate underneath. —_—_—— fine impression, with the small engraving. The Bruiser, three states. Hogarth’s Tour, 9 plates, with letterpress. Burlesques upon Hogarth :— The new Dunciad. Author run Mad. Mountebank Painter. Burlesquer burlesqued. Plate attributed to Hogarth :— The French Banquet, or the transports of a Fury at the approaches of Count Lowendahl before Berg-op-Zoom | London, W. Owen W. Hogarth) invent. 1717 This rare plate is not described in any catalogue of the works of Hogarth. Twenty pounds was offered to a former possessor for it. The origimal engraving in the manner of Callot, from which the design is taken, accompanies it.