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Inventar Nr.: GS 20352, fol. 70
 
Werktitel: Der Saitenhalter, oder der Bathos
nach Werkverzeichnis: Tailpiece, or the Bathos
Beteiligte Personen:
Künstler/-in:William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Verleger:William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Datierung:
Entstehung der Platte:3.3.1764 (in der Platte)
Technik: Kupferstich, Radierung
Maße: 31,5 x 33,4 cm (Blattmaß)
Beschriftungen: in der Platte: TAILPIECE.; The Worlds End.; FINIS.; H. Nature Bankrupt.; all and every Atom thereof to Chaos whom I appoint my sole Executor. Witness Clotho. Lachesis. Atropos.; TIMES; Exeumt Omnes.; Design'd and Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth.; THE BATHOS, or Manner of Sinking, in Sublime Paintings, inscribed to the Dealers in Dark Pictures.; †; Publishd according to Act of Parliamt. March 3d. 1764.; The Conic Form in wch. the Godess of Beauty was woreshipd by the Ancients at Paphos in ye. Island of Cyprus.; See the Medals struck when a Roman Emperor visited the Temple.; "Simulacrum Deæ non effigie humana: continuus orbis latiore initio teneum in ambitum, metæ modo, exsurgens [s]et ratio in obscuro."; Tacit: Hist: Lib: 2.; "Venus a paphiis colitur, cujus Simulacrum nulli rei magis assimile, quam albæ Pyramidi.; Maximus Tyrius. Ann. 157.; † See the manner of disgracing ye most Serious Subjects, in many celebrated Old Pictures; by introducing Low, absurd, obscence & often prophane Circumstances into them.; A Copy of the precise Line of Beauty, as it is represented on the 1st. explanatory *Plate of the Analysis of Beauty, Note, the Similarity of these two Conic Figures, did not occur to the Author, till two or three Years after his publication of the Analysis, in 1754."; * fig: 26.
Geogr. Bezüge:
London
IconClass: 51FF5   Ende; Ripa: Fine
92B3711   Apollo im Sonnenwagen, der von vier Pferden gezogen wird; in der Regel gefolgt von Aurora, die eine Fackel hält; Ripa: Carro del Sole
45C15(BOW)   Waffen eines Bogenschützen: Bogen
31A2746   etwas (zer)brechen
41C741   Tabakpfeife
48C73431   Glocke (als Musikinstrument)
45C16(RIFLE)   Schußwaffen: Gewehr
48C5152   Palette
42E3111   aufrecht stehender Grabstein
23U22   Sanduhr
44G321(GALLOWS)   Folterinstrumente, Hinrichtungswerkzeuge: Galgen
48C149   Ruine eines Gebäudes
91B1118(SCYTHE)   Attribute Saturns: Sense
91B111   die Geschichte des Saturn (Chronos)
58AA1   Zerstörung


Literatur:
  • Paulsen, Ronald: Hogarth's Graphic Works. First complete Edition. Volume 1: Introduction and catalogue. New Haven (u. a.) 1965, S. 259, Kat.Nr. 216.


Letzte Aktualisierung: 11.11.2018



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