Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Invitation ticket for Mr. King “to eat a py for dinner at the inn to the mitra”. Engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed as below. 9.4 x 13.3 cm.
“ Mr. Hogarths Compts. to Mr King and disires the Honnor of his Company at dinner on thursday next to Eta Beta PY ”
Impression on slightly toned minor paper. – Riepenhausen’s engravings after Hogarth (“very estimable”, Nagler) belong to his chief work and not least for their side-correctness they are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings.
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– – – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) Inscribed: Hogarth’s Einladungskarte, otherwise in English as above. 9.6 x 19 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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– – – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 23.3 x 15.4 cm. – Beside The Rape of the Lock (vignette with the representation of a scene from Pope’s poem of the same name), below the subscription tickets Boys Peeping at Nature (for A Harlot’s Progress) + for the engraving The March to Finchley (against the rebels under Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender).
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