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 Wm. Hogarth / According to Act of Parliament April 1st 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) 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”, esteemed also already by contemporary collectors of the rank of for instance an A. T. Stewart [Catalog of the Stewart Collection, New York 1887, 1221, “fine plates”]). – Weak water streak 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. 2tes. Blatt. 21.5 x 23.3 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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