The Beggar s Opera, Act III : in The Original and Genuine Works of William Hogarth

by William. Blake Hogarth, William, separate plate

$3,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

London: Boydell and Company, c.1795. Oblong large folio on wove paper plate mark 583 x 455 mm on sheet 650 x 490 mm . An exceptionally fine, dark impression on bright paper, with the original wide margins untrimmed. § Third and best state of seven, see below of the single plate Blake engraved for Hogarth’s Works, first published by Boydell in 1790, this state appearing in the second, undated edition c. 1795. It was the last state of the plate before

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