Beschreibung:

(Hester Lynch, née Salusbury; other married name Thrale, writer, friend of Samuel Johnson, 1741-1821).- Hogarth (William) The Analysis of Beauty, presentation copy from William Hogarth to H.L. Piozzi with her ink inscription: "Presented by the Authour to Hester L: Salusbury" and dated 1759 on front free endpaper, engraved vignette title, 1p. errata at front, 2pp. list of prints published by the author at end, 2pp. of Hogarth print prices at end, lacks frontispiece and 2 folding plates, 4 engraved plates from a later edition bound in, slightly foxed and browned, with 15 autograph annotations by H.L. Piozzi in the margins, probably annotated in and around 1807-09, also a few correc tions in the text by ?Hogarth or Piozzi, ink signature of Peter Brooke on front pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, rubbed, edges worn, joints split, head and tail of spine chipped, 4to, by J. Reeves for the Author, 1753. *** Piozzi's annotations to Hogarth's analysis of beauty, with references to "Miss Wroughton of Bath [?daughter of Richard Wroughton (1748-1822), actor and theatre manager]... & the elder Vestris [Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797-1856), actress and singer]"; "And here it may not be improper to take notice of a mischief that attends copied actions... if an actor were possest of such general principles as include a knowledge of the effects of all the movements that the body is capable of....'Sweetly true but apparently known to Mrs. Abington only [Frances 'Fanny' Abington (1737-1815), actress]. Also other references such as Hogarth being no sportsman. Hogarth was a longstanding friend of the Salusbury family, and particularly of her father, John. According to Jenny Uglow, in ‘William Hogarth: A Life and a World,’ Hester Thrale Piozzi remembered “how Hogarth and her father, John Salusbury, ‘were very intimate, and he often dined with us.’"No early portraits exist [of Piozzi], but Hester claimed to have been the teenage model for Hogarth's painting 'The Lady's Last Stake'." - Oxford DNB.