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- Prints after William Hogarth 1697–1764
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 273 x 348 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1972
- Reference
- T01680
Catalogue entry
T01680 Satan, Sin and Death 1792
Etching and engraving 273×348 (10 3/4×13 11/16) on paper 314×373 (12 3/8×14 11/16); cut to plate-mark
Writing-engraving ‘W. Hogarth pinx.| T. Rowlandson fe. Aq. For.|J. Ogbourne sculp.|SATAN, SIN AND DEATH.|From
Milton's Paradise Lost, Book the 2d.|The original picture by Hogarth is in the Possession of Mrs. Garrick|This from a Painting in Chiaro-Scuro by R. Livesay.|London, Published June 1, 1792 by J. Thane Rupert Street Hay Market.’ Purchased (Gytha Trust) 1972
PROVENANCE ...; Christopher Drake Ltd, from whom bt by the Tate Gallery
LITERATURE D. Bindman, ‘Hogarth's “Satan, Sin and Death” and its Influence’, Burlington Magazine, CXII, 1970, pp.153–8, fig.33
The original painting for this is in the Tate Gallery (T00790). The whereabouts of Livesay's copy is not known. Livesay was Mrs Hogarth's lodger in Leicester Square 1777–85 and executed for her several facsimiles after Hogarth's drawings.
Published in:
Elizabeth Einberg and Judy Egerton, The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709, Tate Gallery Collections, II, London 1988
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