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CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Rake's Progress . [ca. 1827]. A series of 8 original watercolours after Hogarth, each faintly signed in pencil at bottom margin, later sequence numbering in pencil, 204 x 128mm., window-mounted; with 2 other watercolours of similar size but apparently unrelated, one showing Covent Garden, the other the exterior of a country inn. Preserved in quarter leather buckram box with black morocco title labels. Provenance : Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson -- Eldridge Johnson (purchased at his sale 4 April, 1946). A fascinating transposition of Hogarth's early 18th-century rake to an early 19th century dandy, though the stages of his decline and termination in Bedlam are exactly the same. Albert Cohn does not list any published works by Cruikshank under the title of the Rake's Progress . The designs were later reproduced in Walter Spencer's Forty Years in My Book-Shop (London, 1923).
CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Rake's Progress . [ca. 1827]. A series of 8 original watercolours after Hogarth, each faintly signed in pencil at bottom margin, later sequence numbering in pencil, 204 x 128mm., window-mounted; with 2 other watercolours of similar size but apparently unrelated, one showing Covent Garden, the other the exterior of a country inn. Preserved in quarter leather buckram box with black morocco title labels. Provenance : Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson -- Eldridge Johnson (purchased at his sale 4 April, 1946). A fascinating transposition of Hogarth's early 18th-century rake to an early 19th century dandy, though the stages of his decline and termination in Bedlam are exactly the same. Albert Cohn does not list any published works by Cruikshank under the title of the Rake's Progress . The designs were later reproduced in Walter Spencer's Forty Years in My Book-Shop (London, 1923).