Social Political & Satirical

50x40 cm

Pair of original Hogarth prints Analysis of Beauty.
ANALYSIS of (T) BEAUTY. PLATE I.
Designed, Engraved, and Published by W.^m Hograth, March 5^th 1753, according to Act of Parliament. 
ANALYSIS of (T) BEAUTY. Plate II.
Designed, Engraved, and Published by W.^m Hograth, March 5^th 1753, according to Act of Parliament.
Published in The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath…London:
Printed for Baldwin & Cradock, Paternoster Row, by G. Woodall, Angel Court, Skinner Street.
William Hogarth (1697-1764), apprenticed as an engraver, became the most signifiant artist and printmaker of his time, his satirical caricatures and political cartoons establishing the genre. From 1730 Hogarth established his own business publishing and selling his own prints. After his death his plates passed to his wife Jane who continued issuing his prints until her own death in 1789. The plates were then acquired by publisher John Boydell and sold again, at the Boydell bankruptcy sale in 1818 to Baldwin & Cradock who began selling prints from 1820. Noted engraver James Heath was employed to strengthen some of the engraved lines and this final issue of 1822 is the last to use Hogarth's original engraved plates. 
Light waterstain to top right corner of both prints just reaching the printed area. Otherwise very good condition from the last original Hogarth edition, 'the Heath edition' by Baldwin & Cradock of 1822.
Price is for the pair of plates.
Size given is of the approximate size of each plate.