Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works
by John Nichols
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Collectors of the Fine Arts were already possessed of Catalogues and Memoires Raisonnées of the engravings of many great masters, for which their acknowledgements are due to the industry of a Gersaint, a Jombert, a Hecquet, a Vertue, a de Winter, &c. &c. But a similar illustration of Hogarth's copper-plates was still wanting; though it may be asked what works have a juster claim to a distinguished place in a compleat collection, than those of this instructive moral painter, this creative genius? On this account, it is presumed that the German Lover of the Arts will deem himself indebted to t...
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- BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM HOGARTH;
- WITH A CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED; AND OCCASIONAL REMARKS.
- [BY JOHN NICHOLS.]
- LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR JOHN NICHOLS, IN RED-LION-PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. M DCC LXXXV.
- CONTENTS
- MEMORANDUM.
- ADVERTISEMENT
- TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- The ingenious Mr. Crayen of Leipzig
- DEDICATION.
- PREFACE.
- List of Gentlemen, Artists, &c. who furnished incidental intelligence to the Author of this Work.
- COLLECTORS of HOGARTH.
- Extract from the Daily Advertiser, January 27, 1783.
- "HOGARTH'S ORIGINAL WORKS.
- Prints published by Mr. Hogarth: Genuine Impressions[1] of which are to be had at Mrs. Hogarth's House in Leicester Fields, 1782.
- Credite Posteri!
- HOGARTH.
- CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1]
- 1720.
- 1721.
- 1723.
- 1724.
- 1725.
- 1726.
- 1727.
- 1728.
- 1729.
- 1730.
- 1731.
- 1732.
- 1733.
- 1733 and 1734.
- 1735.
- 1736.
- 1737.
- 1738.
- 1739.
- 1741.
- 1742.
- 1743.
- 1745.
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- 1747.
- 1748.
- 1749.
- 1750.
- 1751.
- 1752.
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- 1754.
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- 1756.
- 1758.
- 1759.
- 1760.
- 1761.
- 1762.
- 1763.
- 1764.
- 1772.
- 1775.
- 1781.
- 1782.
- 1785.
- Prints of uncertain Date.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- ADDITION.
- APPENDIX.
- N° 1. [See p. 23.]
- N° II.
- [See p. 137.]
- N° III.
- [See p. 414.]
- GENERAL INDEX TO HOGARTH'S PLATES.
- FINIS.
- NEW BOOKS published by J. NICHOLS.
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