William Hogarth - Columbus breaking the Egg (BM 1944,1014.207)

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William Hogarth - Columbus breaking the Egg (BM 1944,1014.207)

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Subscription ticket for the "Analysis of Beauty" with Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. 1752
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1752
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British Museum
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