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Later  the  Gambling  House  became  an  Exclusive  Club

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Scene in a Gaming House. Also the money of the old maid is squandered and now Rakewell tried futilely his luck in gambling. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Pl. VI. / Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook sculpt. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, March 1st. 1808. Subject size 14.6 x 17.2 cm.

William Hogarth, Scene in a Gaming House

The Rake’s Progress VI. – Cook’s smaller version without the multi-verse subtext here replaced by the series title. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – Trimmed within the wide white platemark.

Hogarth’s  marvellous  detailed  depiction  of  gambling .

Represented the gaming room in White’s coffeehouse – by now about 250 years renown as the exclusive White’s Club – in the moment of May 3rd, 1733, when the fire broke out. Of which the gamblers at the two tables not yet take notice of. Still the game runs. Win the winners, loose the loosers, continue the profiteers to lend their money. Only “on the right a man turns … his back to luck as he could not stand anymore to look at luck’s back” (Lichtenberg). – Over the fireside advertising for playing cards.
Offer no. 8,871 / EUR  95. (c. US$ 150.) + shipping

 

William Hogarth, Gaming House (Rake's Progress VI; Riepenhausen)

– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: 18. / W. Hogarth inv & pinx. Riepenhausen del & sculps. / Pl. 6. 20.3 x 24.3 cm. – Impression on slightly toned minor paper. – Riepenhausen’s engravings after Hogarth (“very estimable”, Nagler) belong to his chief work and are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings.
Offer no. 7,660 / EUR  135. (c. US$ 214.) + shipping

 

– – – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 14 x 15.6 cm. – With title in German + English.
Offer no. 7,900 / EUR  60. (c. US$ 95.) + shipping

 

Complete copies of the set and further single plates available .

 


 

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