Plate Two, from The Analysis of Beauty

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

William Hogarth

Title

Plate Two, from The Analysis of Beauty

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1756–1761

Medium

Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now split in two, with the left side laid down on back book cover and the right side in two parts)

Dimensions

Image: 36.5 × 49.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Plate: 41.5 × 54.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kenneth Shopen

Reference Number

1960.561b

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