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Print made by: William Hogarth

Published by: William Hogarth
Title
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English: Paul before Felix, showing St Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea; Paul to left with arms raised, Felix sitting with his wife Drusilla and two priests on a dais at centre, one sitting uncomfortably with his chin in his hand, two clerks in front of the bench at which St Paul stands; to right, the orator Tertullus holding a scroll and leaning on a lectern; a soldier to left and two figures carrying fascae either side of the dais. 1752
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Representation of: St Paul
Date 1752
date QS:P571,+1752-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 418 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 517 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Cc,2.172
Notes

Hogarth's painting of this courtroom scene was commissioned to decorate Lincoln's Inn Hall, and was finished and mounted in 1748. Hogarth's own engraving of the subject (this plate) was probably made, according to Paulson, between 1748 and February 1749; in it, he omits the SPQR banner and pillar behind Tertullus in the painting, and the composition is reversed. Hogarth later revised the painting itself from February 1751 but did not engrave the revised version himself, giving it instead to Luke Sullivan (Paulson 192/1), for which see S,2.145 et al. The Sullivan version can be distinguished from Hogarth's engraving by the composition being in the same direction as the painting, and through its omission of the figure of Drusilla.

Sullivan's version of the print appears to have been the primary version; impressions of Hogarth's engraving were advertised as 'another Print... of Paul before Felix, different in Composition' and as the Paul before Felix 'with Alterations' (see Paulson, p. 155). The 'Paul before Felix' was sold as a pair with 'Moses Brought to Pharoah's Daughter' (Paulson 193). Hogarth issued as a subscription ticket for the pair his print 'Paul before Felix burlesqued' (Paulson 191). When the popularity of the burlesque prompted Hogarth to issue it independently, he adapted another print, 'Boys Peeping at Nature' to use as the subscription ticket (Paulson 120; for an impression dated December 1751, see 1857,0509.18).

In 1759, Hogarth altered the lettering on both the Hogarth and Sullivan versions of the 'Paul before Felix', and also the plate of 'Moses brought to Pharoah's daughter' (Paulson 193.III), to include a critical quotation referring to both compositions from Warton's 'Essay on the genius and writings of Pope'; see e.g. S,2.144, Cc,2.173. The 1759 republication of the three plates was announced in the London Chronicle, 1-4 December 1759. The quotation was erased from later impressions of all three plates after Warton apologised to Hogarth in the second edition of the 'Essay', published in 1762; see e.g. S,2.143, Cc,2.174.
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