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William HogarthColumbus Breaking the Egg.London, Baldwin Craddock & Joy 1822Copper engraving165 x 195mm

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William Hogarth

Columbus Breaking the Egg.

London, Baldwin Craddock & Joy 1822

Copper engraving

165 x 195mm

£75

An old fable, applied here to Columbus. As related by Girolamo Benzoni, after admiration for Columbus’s discoveries waned and success turned to envy, his enemies began to assert that anyone could of thought of his plan and carried it out. Columbus challenged his detractors to balance an egg upright on the table. All failed, so Columbus, smashing the base of the egg, thus managed to place it upright. The ‘Line of Beauty’ promoted in the Analysis, is here echoed in the eels on a platter on the table

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