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“ Come unto Me all …I will give you Rest ”
Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Sleeping Congregation. Sunday’s divine service in the countryside. The contrast to the divine service of the Methodists – Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism – could hardly be bigger. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). (1795-1803.) Inscribed: Designed by W. Hogarth, title as before. 30.4 x 20.8 cm. Wonderful impression with the chiaroscuro especially important here as symbolizing the divine sphere. Beyond that – contrary to all later Hogarth editions – in the original size. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – On the right trimmed within the platemark, otherwise wide-margined.
(Lichtenberg). – Illustration
– – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching in extremely wide-margined impression supposedly from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822
(“Even these impressions became relatively rare today though”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970; and Meyers Konv.-Lex., 4th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). Inscribed: Invented Engraved & Published October 26: 1736 by Wm. Hogarth Pursuant to an Act of Parliament. / Retouched & Improved April 21 1762 by the Author. 26.7 x 21 cm.
– – – The same in Cook’s smaller repetition. Inscribed: Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook sculpt. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Jany. 1st. 1809., otherwise as above. 17 x 13.5 cm.
– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) Inscribed: 60. 22 x 16.9 cm.
– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: 60. / W. Hogarth pinx. / R. f. 20.7 x 17.1 cm. – Impression on especially buff paper, supposedly about 1850. – 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.
– – – The same by Riepenhausen as before, but on slightly toned minor paper.
– – – The same in lithography by C. F. Heintz. (1833/36.) Inscribed: 48. / Lith. v. C. F. Heintz. / Die schlafende Versammlung. 23.1 x 14.5 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
– – – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 15.8 x 11.6 cm. – Title in German + English.
(Mrs. A. P., September 26, 2001) |