Apprehended

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Apprehended by a Magistrate. A breakfast with guests, but in what a different surroundings and of what different kind after the visit of the rich Jew in the drawing-room of the previous sheet. On the canopy the periwig box of the highwayman James Dalton, at the wall beside the tester-bed the portraits of Captain Macheath active in the same profession as well as that of the famous-notorious preacher Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Pl. III. / Designed by W. Hogarth. / Engraved by T. Cook / London, Published by G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, February 1^st. 1799. and series title. 36.8 x 41.6 cm.

Harlots Progress III. – Harmonic impression of fine chiaroscuro on buff paper. In the lower right corner of the paper-margin nearly imperceptible waterstreak. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too, whose complete work he has engraved in copy” (Thieme-Becker) and whose original format he maintained contrary to all later Hogarth editions in his first, earlier edition. For some sheets not published by Hogarth himself Cook became their first engraver, just as he also gained approval of a contemporary connoisseur as Maximilian Speck von Sternburg. – The third sheet of the set and together the beginning of her decline:

“ The scene is Drurylane; as one can see from the tin porter mug standing to the right hand down in the corner … The door opens and (the Justice of the Peace) Sir John Gonson enters the room with his train, and the heroine is arrested ”

(Lichtenberg).

The original paintings of this set of six stations in the life of a prostitute from about 1730 were destroyed by fire already about 1755 by the way.
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– – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching in the 3^rd state of 1744. Inscribed: Plate 3. / † / W. Hogarth inv^t. pinx^t et sculp^t. 32.2 x 39.7 cm.

Nagler 17, 3; Hogarth Catalog of the Tate Gallery, 1971/72, 59 + Hogarth Catalog Zurich, 1983, 15, each with illustration of this state; Bindman, Hogarth and his Times, 1997, 10 (with ills. of the 1^st state). – Very fine, contrast-rich impression, perhaps from the complete edition Boydell published 1790-1809. – On buff, virtually extremely wide-margined paper. – Right and below a little fissured.
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– – – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching, 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., 4^th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). – On buff, extraordinarily wide-margined paper.
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) Inscribed: 9. / Plate 3. 22.3 x 26.9 cm.
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– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). Inscribed: 9. / Plate 3. / W. Hogarth inv. pinx. Riepenhausen del. sc. 20 x 25.3 cm. – Impression 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 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: 15. / E. L. Blau lith. / Der Weg einer Buhlerin. 3^tes. Blatt. 20.2 x 21.2 cm. – Extensive subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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Complete copies of the set and further single plates available .

„ heute kam das Paket – vielen Dank für die excellente Verpackung. Das Bild ist wirklich sehr schön … Wir freuen uns auf Ihre (weitere) Nachricht. Herzliche Grüße aus F. “

(Herr + Frau T. C., 13. Mai 2002)