[Columbus breaking the egg] [graphic].

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[1753]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 18.2 x 21.3 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3192
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 194
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3880

Notes:

Title, publisher, and state from Paulson.
Texted engraved below image: "Rec'd [blank] of [blank] five shillings being the first payment for a short tract in quarto call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein forms are consider'd in a new light, to which will be added two explanatory prints serious and comical, engraved on large copper plates fit to frame for furniture." N.B. The price will be rais'd after the subscription is over."
A subscription ticket for Analysis of beauty.
E. Matthews; November 1954.
With Hogarth's annoations: Novbr. [the] 21 1752 Edward Saunderson Esqr. Also signed: Wm Hogarth.

Abstract:

A subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty", based on Leonardo's Last Supper, depicts Christopher Columbus demonstrating how to make an egg stand on its end. The five observers look at the cracked egg, upright on the table, in amusement at the evidence of an inventive mind at work. Two other eggs intertwined with two eels lie on a plate in the center of the table. A dog peeps over the edge of the table; the cutlery is pushed off to one side.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Columbus, Christopher
Dogs
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Parables
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Saunderson, Edmond
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1753
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1753
Seals
Subscription
Tickets

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Hogarth 752.11.21.01 Box 110

Orbis Record:

11322535

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22644

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034752

PID:

digcoll:2810260