Name: Antique Master Print-ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY-Hogarth-1754
SKU: PICTURA-11933
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Antique Master Print-ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY-Hogarth-1754

€395.00

‘ENGRAVERING DER D. SCHOENHEIT TAF. I’

– Allegorical and instructional plate illustrating classical and anatomical principles of beauty, filled with numbered references to artistic proportions, muscle structure, classical sculptures, and artistic tools and principles. Composition includes human figures, statues, books, and diagrams.

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Description

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 50.1 x 38.2 cm (19.72 x 15.04 inch). Image size: 50.1 x 38.2 cm. (19.72 x 15.04 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Original folding as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

HOGARTH, ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY, ANATOMY, CLASSICAL SCULPTURE, BEAUTY, PROPORTION, 18TH CENTURY, ARTISTIC THEORY, ENGRAVING, ETCHING | PCO-B2-30

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published as Plate I of a German ed. of ‘The Analysis of Beauty’ (1753), published in Potsdam, 1754.

State: iii/iii.

Reference: Paulson 1965, no. 195.

Biography engraver: William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his moral and satirical engravings, including ‘A Rake’s Progress’ and ‘Marriage ?-la-Mode’.

Biography artist: William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter and printmaker who pioneered sequential art and modern visual satire. He authored ‘The Analysis of Beauty’, theorizing the aesthetics of line and form.