WILLIAM HOGARTH
1697-1764

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A Harlots Progress
WILLIAM HOGARTH 1697-1764

Etchings with engraving
1733
Paulson 121-126,  before the 1750s revisions
Fine crisp set of six
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A Rake's Progress

June 1735
Etchings with engraving
Fine set, after the 1740s changes, before Hogarth’s late revisions that included the addition of a mad figure of Britannia in the final plate
p.132 v/v, 133 v/v, 134 iii/iii, 135 iii/iii, 136 137 ii/iii,with large margins
​​set of eight

Beer Street  &  Gin Lane
WILLIAM HOGARTH 1697-1764
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1751
Etchings with engraving each approx. 382 x 323 mm
first published states, on thin paper
Two tears with old repairs in one margin
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Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
WILLIAM HOGARTH 1697-1764

​Published by Hogarth, 15 March 1762
Etching & engraving
paulson 210(2 )iii/iii, the only state of the revised version
fine lifetime impression
Collection: blind stamp of W.H.McGRANN in margin (not in Lugt)

Cruelty in Perfection & The Reward of Cruelty 
WILLIAM HOGARTH 1697-1764

[1 January 1751]
WOODCUTS by JOHN BELL (fl.1750s)
Second states, Cruelty in perfection with the letter printed from an inserted block (cf. letterpress), & both with small losses to the border lines. Paulson’s states are incorrect.
On Auvergne laid paper, printed c.1790, or earlier
Paulson describes these two woodcuts (under p.189 & p.190) as ‘copies’.  In fact the pair, the only woodcuts designed by Hogarth, pre date the engraved set by a month. Only these two designs, from the eventual set of four, were made as woodcuts and the project was abandoned in favour of the smaller engravings. Only proofs from the 1750s seem to have survived and the blocks were never used commercially. The blocks survived, until a few impressions were printed by Boydell c.1790-1810.
some old minor restoration to margins, a repaired tear into the image of  Cruelty in Perfection


​Another pair, well printed on wove paper, probably by Bulmer for Boydell c.1810
Trimmed just outside the work, lightly mounted on old album sheets

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The Times of Day

Published by Hogarth 25 March 1738
Etchings with engraving
Fine impressions of the FIRST PUBLISHED STATES, before extensive revisions
paulson 146 i/ii, 147 i/ii, 148 ii/iv & 149 i/ii
Set of four prints

O The Roast Beef of Old England, &c. [Calais Gate]

Published by Hogarth 6 March 1749
Etching & engraving
Fine lifetime impression, the stippled self-portrait printing brilliantly
paulson 180 ii/ii (the first state is probably apocryphal)

Southwark Fair

​1733 [January 1733/4]
Etching & engraving
paulson  131 only state
Fine early impression

Strolling actresses dressing in a barn

Published by Hogarth 25 March 1738
first published state
paulson 150 ii/iv
Very fine impression

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The Bench
Of the different meaning of the words Character, Caracatura and Outre in Painting and Drawing

​4 September 1758
Etching & engraving
Fine impression before the caricature heads were added above the judges
p.205 iii/vi

The Enraged Musician

1741
Etching & engraving
Fine lifetime impression

The Stage-coach, or Country Inn Yard

1747
​Etching & engraving  215 x 307 mm
The rare first published state (there is an apocryphal earlier state)
p 167 ii/iv