Rarely  a  Breakfast  was  more  delicious  …

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Breakfast of the Bridal Pair. Engraving by Bernard Baron (Paris c. 1696 – London 1762). Inscribed: Engraved by B. Baron / Invented Painted & Published by W^m. Hogarth / According to Act of Parliament April 1^st 1745. 38.7 x 46.7 cm.

Marriage à la Mode II. – Illustration Hogarth Catalogue Zurich, 1983, 48. – 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”). – Weak waterstreak in the right upper side margin. – The second plate of this

“ most  beautiful  painted  satire  of  the  century ”

(Dobson in Thieme-Becker).

“ The old count already seems to be decomposed and being at William the Conqueror … Both they have slept a little or not at all last night;  She, here in the house, not, and  He, in another, neither … Here it is still early in the morning … and still one has breakfast … the young gentleman, who just became elder by quite a heavy campaign over night seems, just unloaded by the coach, to have thrown himself here …

The  figure  is  a  masterpiece

and  undoubtedly  one  of  the  best  Hogarth  ever  has  drawn .

The true allegory of enervation after the wildest debauchery of all kind … Where the money stuck there now stick the hands … And now a word on the deeds of the young lady … There in the splendid Egyptian hall she had a gamble party all night long, and play with cards, young gentlemen and such, a little tea, a little concert, and a little dance. One has played long and wild … one of the tables has thrown its cards on the earth, the pandects of the whist, Hoyle on Whist – This book had made itself curiously in the English history of literature – , have been trampled with feet … ”

(Lichtenberg).
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) Inscribed: 22. / Plate 2. 21 x 26.7 cm.
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– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: 22. / W. Hogarth inv. pinx. / Riepenhausen del. & sc. 23.5 x 28.4 cm. – 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: 8. / Die Heirath nach der Mode. 2^tes. Blatt. 21.5 x 23.3 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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Complete copies of the set and further single plates available .

“ Sir, yes, (the Rubens) is closer to the one in London (recte Dresden), but the one we have is on copper. Thank you for your time. Highest regards, D… A… (and yes America could use a blessing about now) ”

(Mr. D. A., November 4, 2003)