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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British, Columbus Breaking the Egg, 1752
- Title:
Columbus Breaking the Egg
- Date:
- 1752
- Medium:
- Etching
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/8 × 7 5/8 inches (20.6 × 19.4 cm), Plate: , Image:
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image: "Rec'd of | five shillings being the first Payment for a short Tract in Quarto | call'd the Analysis of Beauty; wherein Forms are consider'd in a new | light, to which will be added two explanatory Prints serious and | comical, Engrav'd on large Copper Plates fit to frame for Furniture."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2019.24.40
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:82125
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