A beautiful copperplate engraving from William Hogarth's 'Industry and Idleness' series.
This specific print is the seventh of twelve in the series and is titled 'The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute'. We believe these are from the original plates made by Hogarth himself and were printed in his lifetime or shortly after he passed. Signed on plate. Well presented in a molded wood frame with gilded inner and outer borders.
The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration.
19.1 x 27.2cm (7.5" x 10.7")Framed Size: 45.7 x 53cm (18" x 20.9")
Sulis Fine Art is extremely delighted to present this expansive collection of engravings by and after the greatest image-maker of the 18th Century, William Hogarth (1697-1764). Many of the works are by Thomas Cook, who published them in his 1806 'Hogarth Restored', while others are from the original plates acquired by the publisher John Boydell in 1789, and the later Heath edition of 1822.
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William Hogarth FRSA (1697-1765) 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 termed "modern moral subjects". 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 and influential that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
Born in London to a lower-middle-class family, Hogarth first took up an apprenticeship with a silver engraver, and later set up his own studio, primarily working in copper. 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.
Perhaps most poignantly, the words of Charles Lamb encapsulate the work of Hogarth, as he described his images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read."
| SKU | qb241 |
|---|---|
| Date | 18th Century |
| Dimensions | 19.1 x 27.2cm |
| Medium | Engraving |
| Subject | Interiors |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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