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Lot 529

William Hogarth
(1697-1764)
Tail Piece (The Bathos)

9 – 17 January 2025, 10:00 PST
Online, Los Angeles

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William Hogarth (1697-1764)

Tail Piece (The Bathos) (Paulson 216), 1764
Etching with engraving on wove paper, the only state, with margins, framed.
sight 13 x 13 3/4in (33 x 34.9cm)

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Lot Essay
Ronald Paulson, the author of Hogarth's Graphic Works writes "This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images...[taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer's engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa's Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer's print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: 'Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things' (Antal, p.168)."

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