On  the  Turntable  of  Life

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Tavern Scene. The party at advanced hour. Engraving. Inscribed: Invented, Painted, Engraved, & Publish’d by W^m. Hogarth June y^e. 25. 1735. According to Act of Parliament. / Plate 3. 36 x 40.7 cm.

The Rake’s Progress III. – Illustration Hogarth Catalogue Zurich, 1983, 25. – Five quatrain subtexts. – Impression 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”).

“ The miss who appears to make her toilet in the front … in fact undresses. She is willing to show her arts and for that end to let herself being brought onto the table in the dress of the chicken with the fork in the breast, as living dish. The plate that is brought through the door there … will be the turntable on which she will pose ”

(Lichtenberg).

Above-mentioned detail in original size as cover illustration of the Hogarth catalogue of Kunsthaus Zurich 1983.
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) Inscribed: 15. / Pl. 3. 20.7 x 26.5 cm. – Worked without the subtexts.
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– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: W Hogarth inv & pinx. Riepenh. del. sculps. / Pl. 3. 20.5 x 24.2 cm.

On especially buff paper, supposedly about 1850. – The white margin slightly glue-stained. – Riepenhausen’s engravings after Hogarth (“very estimable”, Nagler) belong to his chief work and are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings. – Illustration.
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– – – The same in lithography by C. C. Böhme. (1833/36.) Inscribed: 69 / C. C. Böhme lit. / Der Weg des Liederlichen 3^tes Blatt. 23 x 22.2 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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– – – The same in steel engraving about 1840. 13.2 x 14.7 cm. – With title in German + English.
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