Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Lottery. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Painted by W. Hogarth. / Engrav’d by T. Cook. / Pub^d.. Feb. 1-1803 by G. & I. Robinson, Paternoster-row, London., otherwise as above. 36.9 x 34.4 cm.

Instructive  representation , not omitting the calculability of luck. Otherwise that lottery “in which the March to Finchley (against the rebels under Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender and dedicated by Hogarth to Frederick II of Prussia) was disposed of as already mentioned in the explanation to that sheet …”. The painting was won by Captain Coram, founder of the Foundling Hospital. – Subtext explanation. – Impression of very fine chiaroscuro on buff paper. In its downright luxurious wide white margin right outside two feeble water marks. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too, whose complete work he has engraved in copy” (Thieme-Becker) and whose original format he maintained contrary to all later Hogarth editions in his first, earlier edition. For some sheets not published by Hogarth himself Cook became their first engraver, just as he also gained approval of a contemporary connoisseur as Maximilian Speck von Sternburg.
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– – – The same in Cook’s popular later, smaller version. Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, March 1^st. 1808., otherwise as above. Subject size 13 x 17.2 cm. – Slightly time-marked impression trimmed within the wide white platemark.
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