Colon’s egg

WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)

England, 1752.

Edition by John and Joshia Boydell, London, 1790-1810.

Etching on vellum.

Below the image: “Design’d & Etch’d by Wm: Hogarth Decem 1. 1753”. Print that served as a receipt for the first payment of five shillings for the subscription of his treatise “The Analysis of Beauty”, started in 1752 and published in 1753.

Good condition.