[HOGARTH -- COPPER PLATES]. [SMITH, BENJAMIN, engraver]. Self-Portrait with allegorical attributes. 398 x 301 mm. (15 x 11 in.) -- Martin Folkes, Esq. 336 x 240 mm. (13 x 9 in.) -- The Funeral of Chrystom & Marcella vindicating herself. 258 x 188 mm. (10 x 7 in.) -- The Innkeeper's Wife & Daughter taking Care of ye Don After Being beated & bruised -- The Unfortunate Knight of the Rock Meeting Don Quixote. [1728]. 3 plates, each 258 x 188 mm. (10 x 7 in.) or smaller -- [With:] Modern impressions of each plate (except the first). By the outbreak of the First World War, most of Hogarth's plates not in public collections were held by Bernard Quaritch. The bookseller was persuaded by a misguided government official to donate them to the British Nation for their copper. They perished in the melting pot. However Quaritch held back a few, among these was the present group. (9)