(Sullivan’s Paul Before Felix)

William Hogarth

(Sullivan’s Paul Before Felix)

London, J. & J. Boydell ca 1806

Copper engraving

425 x 525mm

£150

From the collection of George Morant, (1770 – 1846) of 95 Wimpole St, London. A very fine set on mostly uncut sheets kept loose in a folio. Carefully printed and in very good condition.

Morant was a collector and Founder of a business of paper hangers, carvers, gilders and picture frame makers.

The company had offices at 88 Old Bond St,  from 1814, and was appointed as ‘house decorator, carver, gilder & picture-frame-maker to His Majesty’. From 1832 he was appointed again by Her majesty Queen Victoria

Sullivan’s engraving has the same caption as Hogarth’s, and is mainly distinguishable from that print by it’s not being the reverse of the painting, and by its fewer figures. Sullivan’s drawing was sold at Christies June 17^th 1975

Paulson 92/1 IV/V