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Columbus breaking the Egg   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Columbus breaking the Egg
Description
English: 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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Depicted people Representation of: Christopher Columbus
Date 1752
date QS:P571,+1752-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 197 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 193 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Cc,1.151
Notes Henry Symonds has not been identified, but he may have been related to the musician of that name who died around 1740. For Hogarth's relationship with the musical world of his day, see J. Barlow, "The Enraged Musician: Hogarth's musical imagery", c.2005
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-1-151
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