Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Sarah Malcolm. The charwoman who killed three at once in three-quarter figure, sitting at a table, three days before her hanging. Between crime and penance a judging justice had set but 1 month. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: W. Hogarth (ad Vivum) pinxit. / Engrav’d by T. Cook / London Published by G. & J. Robinson Pater noster Row April 1^st. 1802., otherwise as above. 22.6 x 22.7 cm.

Very fine impression of fine chiaroscuro on buff wide-margined paper. Above trimmed within the wide platemark. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too, whose complete work he has engraved in copy” (Thieme-Becker) and whose original format he maintained contrary to all later Hogarth editions in his first, earlier edition. For some sheets not published by Hogarth himself Cook became their first engraver, just as he also gained approval of a contemporary connoisseur as Maximilian Speck von Sternburg.
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– – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching in a harmonic, wide-margined impression from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822 (“Even these impressions became relatively rare today though”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970; and Meyers Konv.-Lex., 4^th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). (1733.) Inscribed: W. Hogarth (ad Vivum) pinxit., otherwise as above. 22.8 x 22.8 cm.

Illustration with Hogarth’s subtext as well as the price note in the upper margin both removed here on occasion of the 1997/98 English-North American touring exhibition in Bindman, Hogarth and his Times, no. 74a.
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– – – The same in Cook’s popular later, smaller version. Engraving. Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, March 1^st. 1807., otherwise as above. Subject size 15.1 x 12.9 cm. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark.
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„ herzlichen Dank für die rasche und ausführliche Behandlung meiner Anfrage. Ich bestelle hiermit beide o. a. Gebote … bin ich auch mit Vorauszahlung einverstanden “

(Frau R. R., 20. November 2002)