Description
Antique (1756) Hogarth Engravings;
A set of 6 rare William Hogarth 1697 – 1764) engravings and etchings for Don Quixote and the Knight of the Rock circa 1726 was published later (1756) including;
Plate 1. The Funeral of Chrystom & Marcella vindicating herself,
Plate 2. The Innkeeper’s Wife and Daughter taking care of ye Don after being beaten and bruised;
Plate 3. Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves;
Plate4. The Unfortunate Knight of the Rock Meeting Donn Quixote;
Plate 5. Don Quixote seizes the Barber’s Bason for Mambrino’s Helmet;
Plate 6. The Curator and Barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home,
A similar set is with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This is the second one known and the third one is unknown. The web page from the Met, New York is also added for information.
Size 46 x 40 cms (25 x 18.4 cms excluding frame).
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William Hogarth FRSA 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”, and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot’s Progress, A Rake’s Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as “Hogarthian”.
Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. In his youth, he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver but did not complete the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William’s paintings and prints with a hard edge.
Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth’s works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, most of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth’s images to be books, filled with “the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read.”
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