BROWNING & MINOR WEAR TO THE EDGES OF THE 18" X 23" PAPER. THERE ARE HANDLING CREASES. Paper toning and soiling consistent with age.
- The browning and foxing are quite visible on three of four of the edges, with the fourth edge being where the engraving was sewn into a portfolio. Minimal light spotting and soiling does enter the plate area. Overall, the area within the plate marks is quite clean. The left edge has additional paper glued to the edge to make the page the same size as the rest of the portfolio
SIMON FRASER, ELEVENTH LORD LOVAT: Portrait of Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat, Jacobite conspirator, sat at a desk on which rest his 'Memoirs'. After his arrest in 1746 Lovat was brought to London for trial. On the way he stopped briefly in St Albans, where William Hogarth arranged to meet him at the White Hart Inn and to interview and draw him. The result of the meeting was this famous print, published while Lovat was lodged in the Tower of London. The print was much in demand and was the source of numerous contemporary copies.
On 9 April 1747 he became the last man in England to be beheaded. The crowd for Lovat's execution was huge, and Paulson compares it with Hogarth's depiction of the execution of the idle apprentice Tom Idle in plate eleven of his Industry and Idleness
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Plate size is approximately 9.75" x 14"
William Hogarth died in 1764 and this was printed in 1800. This was engraved by Thomas Cook, who always engraved to the same dimensions as Hogarth's original work. From what I have read, he was the only engraver to do so.
This was published by G.G & J Robinsons Paternoster Row December 1, 1800. Portrait of Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat, Jacobite conspirator, sat at a desk on which rest his 'Memoirs'. After his arrest in 1746 Lovat was brought to London for trial. On the way he stopped briefly in St Albans, where William Hogarth arranged to meet him at the White Hart Inn and to interview and draw him. The result of the meeting was this famous print, published while Lovat was lodged in the Tower of London. The print was much in demand and was the source of numerous contemporary copies.
On 9 April 1747 he became the last man in England to be beheaded. The crowd for Lovat's execution was huge, and Paulson compares it with Hogarth's depiction of the execution of the idle apprentice Tom Idle in plate eleven of his Industry and Idleness
The paper is watermarked " J. Whatman 1794". (PHOTO 6) J. Whatman paper is considered by many to be the best paper ever made with comparisons to Rolls Royce and Faberge..
Many sellers would trim the edges of the paper to eliminate the brown edges and chipping. I do not. You can trim or mat out the browning.
PLEASE USE ZOOM FUNCTION ON ALL PHOTOS.
These will be shipped rolled
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