Analysis of Beauty, Plate I, William Hogarth, 1753

One of two prints issued with hogarth's treatise "the analysis of beauty": a sculptor's yard (said to be that of john cheere at hyde park corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the farnese hercules, the antinous, the laocoon and the medici venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text (not yet completed in this state, see paulson); the image is numbered throughout in brown ink. 1753 verso: offset of another impression of the same print etching and engraving. Date: 1753. Dimensions: Height: 383 mm; Width: 500 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Analysis of Beauty, Plate I (BM 1858,0417.581)