North & South of Great Britain.
Will.m Hogarth delin. F.B_ Sculp.
Published June the 11th, 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and J. Thane.
Etching, proof? 150 x 185mm (6 x 7¼"); in ink verso "It is almost certain that this is an Imposition"; very large margins. Some soiling.
A satire on the perennial north-south divide, comparing an emaciated Scot dressed in rags in front of Edinburgh Castle with a portly Londoner with St Paul's Cathedral behind. A later state, with the same publication date but with added aquatint, has Paul Sandby's name instead of Hogarth's. This is the more likely attribution: certainly this print is not listed in Paulson's bibliography of Hogarth. The BM posits that the engraver might be Francesco Bartolozzi, but it most likely to be the work of Sandby as well. Anthony Torre and John Thane worked together only 1781-82, before handing over their business at the Ancient and Modern Print Warehouse to Paul Colnaghi.
See BM Satires 3799 for a state with Hogarth's name but without the engraver's initials, and the same number for the finished version.
[Ref: 40349] £220.00
Published June the 11th, 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and J. Thane.
Etching, proof? 150 x 185mm (6 x 7¼"); in ink verso "It is almost certain that this is an Imposition"; very large margins. Some soiling.
A satire on the perennial north-south divide, comparing an emaciated Scot dressed in rags in front of Edinburgh Castle with a portly Londoner with St Paul's Cathedral behind. A later state, with the same publication date but with added aquatint, has Paul Sandby's name instead of Hogarth's. This is the more likely attribution: certainly this print is not listed in Paulson's bibliography of Hogarth. The BM posits that the engraver might be Francesco Bartolozzi, but it most likely to be the work of Sandby as well. Anthony Torre and John Thane worked together only 1781-82, before handing over their business at the Ancient and Modern Print Warehouse to Paul Colnaghi.
See BM Satires 3799 for a state with Hogarth's name but without the engraver's initials, and the same number for the finished version.
[Ref: 40349] £220.00