1822 ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY Pair of Hogarth Large Folio Size Antique Engravings (HL)

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Listing Template 2018 Home About Us View Feedback Contact Us 1822 ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY Pair of Hogarth Large Folio Size Antique Engravings (HL)Description1822A fine folio size original pair of copper engravings titled:ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY Plate 1 - ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY Plate 2A fine pair of these large folio size engraved prints. Each measuring approx 58.5cm x 46cm including the margins. Excellent condition with later hand colouring.Plate I -has as its central scene a courtyard filled with some of the most famous works of classical sculpture. It is believed to have been inspired by a passage in Socrates' analysis of beauty based upon art objects in the yard of a friend. In Hogarth's 'yard' the great sculpture is intermingled with various, often comic, contemporary art objects. In the centre (13) is the Medicean Venus. To the right (19), a statue of Julius Caesar is being hoisted by a pulley. Beside him stands the famous Apollo Belvedere (12). To the extreme right a contemporary judge presides with his foot on a cherub (16). A second cherub, with a gallows in his hand, wipes tears from his eyes with the judge's robe.Plate II - Like Plate One, the array of images around the border of Plate Two are related to the central scene of a dance within a country mansion. Of these smaller images the two most important are found in the upper left corner (71 and 123). In The Analysis of Beauty William Hogarth writes,Thus, as two or three lines are sufficient to shew the intention of an attitude, I will take this opportunity of presenting my reader . with the sketch of a country-dance, in the manner I began to set out the design; in order to shew how few lines are necessary to express the first thoughts, as to different attitudes; see fig. 71, which describe in some measure, the several figures and actions, mostly of the ridiculous kind, that are represented in the chief part of plate 2.The most amiable person may deform his general appearance by throwing his body and limbs into plain lines, but such lines appear still in a more disagreeable light in people of a particular make, I have therefore chose such figures as I thought would agree best with my first score of lines, fig. 71.The two parts of curves next to 71, served for the figures of the old woman and her partner at the farther end of the room. The curve and two straight lines at right angles, gave the hint for the fat man's sprawling posture. I next resolved to keep a figure within the bounds of a circle, which produced the upper part of the fat woman, between the fat man and the awkward one in the bad wig, for whom I had made a sort of an X. The prim lady, his partner in the riding-habit, by pecking back her elbows, as they call it, from the waste upwards, made a tolerable D, with a straight line under it, to signify the scanty stiffness of her petticoat; and a Z stood for the angular position the body makes with the legs and thighs of the affected fellow in the tye-wig; the upper parts of his plump partner was confin'd to an O, and this chang'd into a P, served as a hint for the straight lines behind. The uniform diamond of a card, was filled up by the flying dress, etc., and of the little capering figure in the spencer-wig; whilst a double L mark'd the parallel position of his poking partner's hands and arms: and lastly, the two waving lines were drawn for the more genteel turns of the two figures at the hither end.Luke Sullivan (1705 - 1771) was a London-based Irish engraver and miniature painter. He was supported in his early career by the Duke of Beaufort, his father having worked for the Duke as a groom. His best known works were completed as an assistant to William Hogarth, though Hogarth was reputed to have had difficulty working with Sullivan, owing to the latter's erratic behaviour and frequent absences. Later in his career he worked on engravings of various British views, including that of Stonehenge for Grose's 'Antiquities of England and Wales,' as well as having some succes. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 234168062161_8f5a88f

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