Theological

53x43 cm

And the child grew & she brought him unto Pharaohs daughter & he became her son. And she called his name Moses.
From the Original in the Foundling Hospital Engraved by Will,^m Hogarth & Luke Sullivan.
Published as the Act directs Feb:^ry 5, 1752.

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.

Some spotting to margins and a water stain to upper right margin slightly affecting the plate edges.