Columbus breaking the egg

Title:: Columbus breaking the egg
Description:: Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known.
Artist:: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Publisher:: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Name on Item:: Design'd & Etch'd by Wm. Hogarth
Date:: December 1, 1753
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Portrait prints
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints
Subjects:: Eggs
Explorers
Columbus, Christopher
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 17 x 20 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5138jt371
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Publisher:: [William Hogarth]
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from catalogue raisonné.
Paulson: 194
Notes (date):: Date from item.
Notes (citation):: Paulson, Ronald. "Hogarth's Graphic Works." The Print Room, 1989, London.
Notes (object):: Second state. After the receipt was cut off. This state was usually bound as a frontispiece to the Analysis of Beauty.
Identifier:: 18_06_000059
W. 1246 (no longer used)
Barcode:: 36666003800931

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