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Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin

783 - Hogarth, William
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Hogarth, William Rahl, Carl Hogarth’s copperplate engravings in 62 sheets. Title page with table of contents and 62 plates. Vienna, Sammer, c. 1840. Quarto. (Late) half-leather with bookplate (original front cover mounted on the front board). From the library of Victor von Klemperer, bearing his bookplate. – A rare series of plates based on the famous satirical copperplate engravings by William Hogarth (1697–1764), in reduced-scale etched reproductions by Carl (Heinrich) Rahl (1779–1843), the father of the later, better-known history painter Carl Rahl (1812–1865), who worked as a court engraver in Vienna. The plates were originally created as illustrations for Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s *Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche* (*Detailed Explanation of Hogarth’s Copperplate Engravings*), which was reprinted between 1818 and 1823 by the Viennese publishers Kaulfuß and Armbruster, initially comprising 50 plates. Around 1835, the Viennese publisher Rudolph Sammer took over the remaining stock and, once this had been sold, brought out an expanded new edition of the plate series alone, now increased to 62 etchings and without Lichtenberg’s accompanying text, as a standalone collection of prints – the present edition, which is rarely found on the market. The sheets reproduce Hogarth’s original prints – including cycles such as ‘A Rake’s Progress’ (The Rake’s Progress) and other moralising picture series by the English master – at roughly half the size of the originals, thereby conveying Hogarth’s socially critical pictorial satire to the 19th-century continental European public in a compact form. - Title page slightly stained and creased, backed; otherwise only sporadically stained. From the library of Victor von Klemperer, with his bookplate. – A rare set of plates based on William Hogarth’s (1697–1764) celebrated satirical engravings, in reduced, etched reproductions by Carl (Heinrich) Rahl (1779–1843), the Viennese court engraver and father of the later, more famous history painter of the same name, Carl Rahl (1812–1865). The plates were originally created to illustrate Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s *Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche* (“Detailed Explanation of Hogarth’s Engravings”), which was reprinted by the Viennese publishing house Kaulfuß und Armbruster between 1818 and 1823, initially comprising 50 plates. Around 1835, the Viennese publisher Rudolph Sammer acquired the remaining stock, and once it had sold out, he published an expanded new edition of the plate sequence alone, now increased to 62 etchings and issued as a stand-alone pictorial work without the accompanying Lichtenberg text – the present, commercially rare edition. The plates reproduce Hogarth’s original engravings – including cycles such as ‘A Rake’s Progress’ and other moralising pictorial sequences by the English master – at roughly half the size of the originals, thereby conveying Hogarth’s socially critical pictorial satire in a compact form to the Continental European public of the nineteenth century. Title page somewhat stained and creased, with a backing repair; otherwise, only isolated light staining.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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