Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Rape of the Lock. Vignette with the representation of a scene from Alexander Pope’s equal-named heroi-comical poem. Engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). 8.5 x 12.8 cm.
Impression from about 1850 on especially buff paper. – Wide-margined, the lateral outer edges slightly brown-striped.
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– – – The same on slightly toned minor paper. 8.5 x 12.8 cm.
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– – – The same in lithograph about 1830. Inscribed in German: Scene from the Rape of the Lock by Pope (4th song) together with five lines subtext. 9.5 x 12.5 cm. – Somewhat palish.
„ Besides Hogarth worked this picture for a box which shall have been presented to a gentleman who himself played a rôle in the poem. “
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– – – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 23.3 x 15.4 cm. – Beside invitation ticket “on a pie for lunch at the inn of the mitre” for Mr. King, below the subscription tickets Boys Peeping at Nature (for A Harlot’s Progress) + for the engraving The March to Finchley (against the rebels under Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender).
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