Hogarth, William. Translated French texts, between 1761 and 1764 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Hogarth, William. Translated French texts, between 1761 and 1764

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0004

Primary Creator: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)

Other Creators: Watelet, Claude-Henri (1718-1786)

Extent: 1.0 Items

Date Acquired: 10/02/1980

Subjects: Art--European, Grace (Aesthetics)

Languages: English

This item (2 pages) contains English-language translations from a critical essay on French author Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) and from Watelet's L'Art de peindre (1760) by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The original texts appear in the Amsterdam edition of L'Art de peindre in 1761. The origin of the manuscripts was identified by University of Illinois Professor John A. Dussinger in 1984.

See Administrative/Biographical History for more information.

William Hogarth (1697-1764), a native of London, was a silversmith and engraver prior to becoming a painter. He created satirical, moral, and Biblical scenes as well as portraits, and became sergeant-painter to King George II in 1757.

Sources

Bindman, David. "Hogarth, William (1697-1764)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online edition. Oxford University Press: 2009. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/13464

Dussinger, John A. "William Hogarth's Translation of Watelet on 'Grace'." The Burlington Magazine 126.980 (November 1984): 691.

Art--European
Grace (Aesthetics)

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Acquisition Source: C. A. Stonehill, Inc

Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon, July 2016

Other Note:

Formerly cataloged as Nature of grace : a translation of the chapter and commentary on grace from the Amsterdam edition of Watelet's L'Art de peindre.

Formerly part of the Robert Wentworth Rogers Collection of Eighteenth-century English Literature.

Former shelfmark: MS Q. 701 H67d.

Former shelfmark: Q. 844W29 Oa 1761 apx.