 Gin Lane. A nice little Hogarth Scrapbook."Recent cataloguing work has turned up a new discovery of engravings and etchings by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The collection appears to have belonged to the Manchester collector John Legh Philips, whose library and collection of prints and paintings was sold after his death in 1814. The collection is contained in a large scrapbook measuring 63 x 47 cm. A total of 190 prints have been pasted onto both sides of fifty leaves on paper which has now become acidic and brittle. The prints themselves have been cut down, but in most cases without affecting the impression of the plates."
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