The Good Samaritan

Thomas Cook after William Hogarth

The Good Samaritan

Loindon J Boydell ca 1806

Copper engraving

485 x 565mm

£120

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

A large and elaborate engraving illustrating a view from the New Testament showing the Samaritan succouring the wounded traveller, with his horse tied to a tree on the right.This huge painting was executed by Hogarth to hang on the staircase of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield wherefor the moment it still remains