Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Killing of the Earl Squanderfield. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Designed by W. Hogarth / Engraved by T. Cook / Published April 1^st. 1797 by G. G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London. 38.6 x 47.6 cm.

Marriage à la Mode V. – Of fine chiaroscuro and – contrary to all later Hogarth editions – in the original size. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – The last but one plate of this

“ most  beautiful  painted  satire  of  the  century ”

(Dobson in Thieme-Becker).

The husband has disturbed the adulterous couple. With the result of a duel in which the Earl is wounded, and Silvertongue, in illuminating habit like that of the wife, is trying to escape through the window, but the watch comes promptly.

“ A recording painter is at hand in the form of St Luke in the picture above the door. It becomes clear in the print that the comically crude tapestry illustrates The Judgment of Solomon, as if to confirm the ludicrous fact that the imminence of death is needed to expose the truer love ”

(Hogarth Catalogue of the Tate Gallery, 1971/72, p. 63).
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– – – The same in engraving by R. F. Ravenet. Inscribed: Engraved by R. F. Ravenet / Invented Painted & Published by W^m. Hogarth / According to Act of Parliament April 1^st 1745. 38.5 x 46.8 cm.

Illustration Hogarth Catalogue Zurich, 1983, 51. – Harmonic wide-margined impression, supposedly from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834, “earned applause early”, Nagler) about 1822 (“Even these impressions became relatively rare today though”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970; and Meyers Konv.-Lex., 4^th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). – The left platemark slightly pressed through and backed at the reverse by old, the white margin a little age-spotted here. Weak waterstreak in the upper right side margin.
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) Inscribed: 25. / Plate 5. 20.9 x 26.8 cm.
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– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: 25./ W. Hogarth inv. pinx. / R. del. sc. 23.4 x 28.2 cm. – Early toned impression. – A little tear just reaching to the wide lower platemark backed acid-freely. – 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 by Riepenhausen as before, but on slightly toned minor paper.
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– – – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) Inscribed: 11 / Die Heirath nach der Mode. 5^tes. Blatt. 21.1 x 22.7 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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