Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen
1765 Göttingen 1840
University engraver there, friend of the poet Gottfried August Bürger (“Bürger’s ‘Münchhausen’ became the last German popular book”, Laaths, [History of World Literature], 1953). His engravings after Hogarth
(“very estimable”, Nagler)
belong to his chief work and not least for their side-correctness
they are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings.
therefore see under William Hogarth
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