Autore Hogarth, William
Titolo The Analysis of Beauty
Luogo di Pubblicazione London
Anno 1753
Editore Printed by J. Reeves for the Author
Edizione I
Numero di Pagine in-4, 153
Paese di Pubblicazione GBR
Lingua di Pubblicazione ENG
Note

TITOLO COMPLETO: The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. By William Hogarth.
Testo online: Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture

EDIZIONI SUCCESSIVE:
The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. By William Hogarth. A New Edition, London, Printed by J. Reeves for the author, 1772; London, printed by W. Strahan, for Mrs. Hogarth, and sold by her at her house in Leicester-Fields, 1772.
Testo online: INTERNET ARCHIVE

The Analysis of Beauty, by William Hogarth. And, Rules for drawing Caricaturas: with An Essay on Comic Painting, by Francis Grose. With Plates, London, Samuel Bagster, [1791?].

The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. By William Hogarth. Illustrated by Engravings. A New Edition, Printed Verbatim from the Original Work, the Pages of which are here Retained, London, Printed for R. Scholey by T. Davison, 1810.
Testo online: GOOGLE LIBRI

The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. By William Hogarth, Edinburgh, Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1810.

The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. By William Hogarth, [London], Samuel Bagster, 1822.

Il testo fu incluso in diverse edizioni dell'opera omnia di Hogarth:
- Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored, London, Printed for the engraver [Thomas Cook] and G. and J. Robinson, 1803.
- The Works of William Hogarth, (Including the 'Analysis of Beauty',) Elucidated by Descriptions, Critical, Moral and Historical; (Founded on the Most Approved Authorities.) To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life. By Thomas Clerk. In Two Volumes, London, Printed for R. Scholey, 46, Paternoster-Row; by James Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1810, 1812, 1821, 2 voll.; London, Black and Armstrong, 1837, 3 voll.
Testo online: Edizione 1812
- Anecdotes of the Celebrated William Hogarth; with an Explanatory Description of his Works. With a portrait, London, printed for John Stockdale, 1811 e 1813.
Testo online: Edizione 1813
- The Complete Works of William Hogarth, including the Analysis of Beauty, Printed Verbatim from the Author's own Edition: with Descriptions Critical, Moral, and Historical, and some Account of His Life, London, S. Cornish, 1838, 3 voll.

EDIZIONI RECENTI:
Ristampe della prima edizione:
- The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth. A Reprint Including the Plates Formerly in Portfolio, ed. by W.C. Ostrander, Pittsfield, Mass., The Silver Lotus Shop, 1909. Alcune parti del testo originale sono omesse (la Preface, sostituita da una nuova prefazione di Ostrander, l'Introduction, e diverse note).
Testo online:
INTERNET ARCHIVE
- The Analysis of Beauty. With the rejected passages from the manuscript drafts and autobiographical notes. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Burke, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1955.
- Menston, Scolar Press, 1971.
- New York, NY, Garland, 1973.
- Ilkley; London, Scolar Press, 1974.
- Hildesheim; New York, Georg Olms, 1974 e 2001.
- The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth. Edited with an introduction and notes by Ronald Paulson, New Haven; London, Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art by Yale University Press, 1997.

TRADUZIONI:
Italiano: L'analisi della Bellezza. Scritta col disegno di fissar l'Idee vaghe del Gusto. Tradotta dall'Originale Inglese. Di Guglielmo Hogarth, Livorno, Giovanni Paolo Fantechi, 1761 (vedi). La traduzione è anonima. 
Si segnala anche: L'analisi della bellezza, traduzione a cura di C. Maria Laudando; presentazione di Laura Di Michele, Palermo, Aestethica, 1999.

Francese: Analyse de la Beauté, Destinee a fixer les Idées vagues qu'on a du gout; traduite de l'anglais de Guillaume Hogarth; Précédée de la vie de ce peintre, et suivie d'une Notice chronologique, historique et critique de tous ses ouvrages de peinture et de gravure, avec deux grandes planches, Paris, L'auteur, Levrault, Schoell et Compagnie, 1805, 2 voll. in 1 (vedi). Traduzione di Hendrik Jansen, Bibliothecaire de S. E. Mgr. de Talleyrand-Perigord (il nome compare nella dedica a Monseigneur Charles Theodore, Electeur et Archeveque de Ratisbonne).
Si segnala inoltre una traduzione più recente: William Hogarth. L'Analyse de la beauté. Introduction, traduction et notes par Olivier Brunet, Paris, A.G. Nizet, 1963.

Tedesco: Zergliederung der Schönheit, die schwankenden Begriffe von dem Geschmack festzusetzen, geschrieben von Wilhelm Hogarth. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von C. Mylius, London, Andreas Linde, Hannover, J. W. Schmidt, 1754 (vedi). Traduzione di Christlob Mylius, in collaborazione con Hogarth.
Si segnala inoltre una traduzione più recente: Analyse der Schönheit. Aus dem Englischen von Jörg Heininger. Mit einem Nachwort von Peter Bexte, Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 1995; Hamburg, Philo Fine Arts, 2008.

Russo: Analiz krasoty, Leningrad; Moskva, 1958 (vedi).

Si segnala anche la traduzione in ucraino: Kyïv, s.n., 1978.


 

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