Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)Ireland, John
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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)
Ireland, John
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
The Portrait of a Young Girl, from a picture in the possession of
Mrs. Hogarth, was about this time very delicately engraved by Martha
Knight, Brompton.
1790.
1. The Beggars' Opera. Engraved by Blake, and published by Messrs.
Boydell, from a picture in the collection of the Duke of Leeds.
2. Sealing the Sepulchre: from the Altar-piece in St. Mary
Redcliffe's, Bristol; engraved in a large mezzotinto by J. Jenner.
3. The Sepulchre; engraved from the same altar-piece as a companion,
with the title of The Resurrection. _Vide_ p. 195.
1792.
1. The Indian Emperor, or Conquest of Mexico; from the original
picture in the collection of Lord Holland; engraved by R. Dodd, and
published by Messrs. Boydell.
2. Sigismunda. Engraved by Benj. Smith, and published by Messrs.
Boydell, who possess the original picture, from which there was an
etching by Basire in Hogarth's lifetime; and from the sketch a print
in mezzotinto was a few years since engraved by Dunkarton.
PRINTS OF UNCERTAIN DATE.
Some of the following prints are insignificant enough, others are
curious, but all derive their principal value from being the work of
Hogarth. I have noted the prices at which a few of them sold, and
think it probable that No. 30 produced more money at Mr. Gulston's
sale than the artist received for engraving the twenty-nine preceding
prints:--
_Coats of Arms._
1. A Gryffon with a Flag. A crest.
2. Lord Aylmer's Coat of Arms. A copy sold for £7, 10s. in Mr.
Gulston's sale.
3. Lord Radnor's Coat of Arms.
4. A large Coat of Arms, with Terms of the Four Seasons.
5. A Coat of Arms, with two Slaves as trophies.
6. Another with two Boys as Terms.
7. Foreign Coat of Arms; supporters, a Savage and Angel.
8. The Duchess of Kendal's Arms. _Vide_ p. 28. A copy sold in Mr.
Gulston's sale for £4.
9. Another, for a silver tea-table, larger, but not so neatly
engraved. Sold in the same sale for £6.
10. Another.
11. With a male shield, probably a mistake of the engraver's.
12. A Coat of Arms, engraved on a silver tea-table.
13. The same ornaments left, and Sir Gregory Page's arms inserted in
their place. At Sir Gregory's sale, the table was purchased by Mr.
Morrison, who, after taking off twenty-five impressions, melted the
plate.
14. The Chudleigh Arms. Motto: _Aut vincam, aut peribo_.
15. Arms of Gore, engraved on a silver waiter.
16. Arms of John Holland, herald painter; a book plate. In the second
impressions the lion is of a smaller size, and eight _fleur-de-lis_
instead of the seven originally inserted.
17. Arms of George Lambart. Said to have been a book-plate for
Lambert the painter. If it was so, it is passing strange that the
name should be thus spelt.
_Shop-bills._
18. A large Angel, holding a palm in his left hand: a shop-bill
for Ellis Gamble, at the Golden Angel, Cranbourn Street, Leicester
Fields, has sold for £7, 7s.
19. A contracted copy of the above.
20. Another, somewhat different, in the collection of Mr. Walpole.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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