Artist: William Hogarth (British, 1697 - 1764), after.
Engraver: Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (German, 1765–1840).
Title: Five engravings after Hogarth.
One from A Rake’s Progress.
Plate V, The Rake Married an Old Maid.
Four from Industry and Idleness.
Plate III, The Idle ’Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service.
Plate IV, The Industrious ’Prentice a Favourite, and entrusted by his Master.
Plate IX, The Idle ’Prentice betray’d by his Whore, and taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice.
Plate XI, The Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn.
Inscriptions: Lettered in the plate with titles, plate numbers, biblical references, and credits after William Hogarth; engraved by Riepenhausen.
Dimensions: Sheets 9 3/4" x 15 1/4".
Publisher: Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, Germany.
Edition: Album supplement of engraved plates published in conjunction with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s commentary on Hogarth.
Date: Late XVIII–Mid XIX C.
Materials and Techniques: engravings on wove paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: The sheets show surface soiling and grease stains. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: from the Riepenhausen album supplement to Lichtenberg’s Hogarth edition.
Art Movements, Periods and Schools: British School XVIII C. German School XVIII C.
Note: These engravings were issued as a separate plate album accompanying Lichtenberg’s multy-volume textual commentary on Hogarth. They are not lifetime impressions by Hogarth, but early posthumous engravings produced for a scholarly German edition.
Acknowledgement: This entry incorporates text from publicly available scholarly sources, including Wikipedia.