Hogarth: The Artist and the CityThis text examines Hogarth's career, from his beginnings as a young engraver in the 1720s, through to his rise to fame as a painter & printmaker in the 1730s & 1740s. The book offers an understanding of the breadth of his achievements, showing his brilliance as a graphic satirist, urban commentator, draughtsman, portraitist, & history painter. |
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William Hogarth and Modernity | 23 |
Past and Present | 33 |
The 1720s | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Analysis of Beauty ANDREW EDMUNDS aristocratic artist audience Autobiographical Notes Beer Street Beggar's Opera celebrated century character comic composition contemporary conversation pieces Coram culture daughter David depicted display dressed eighteenth eighteenth-century elegant Elizabeth Einberg England English engraved version Etching and engraving executed exhibition famous figure foreground Foundling FOUNDLING MUSEUM French genre George George Vertue gesture Gin Lane Goodchild graphic satire hand hanging Harlot's Progress history painting Hogarth's painting Industrious Prentice Industry and Idleness James Thornhill John London and Madrid LONDON London Lord Marriage A-la-Mode Meanwhile modern Moll MUSEUM narrative NATIONAL GALLERY offers Oil on canvas painter Pamela pictorial picture Plate play political portrait portraiture prints produced prostitute published rake Rake's Progress Richard Ronald Paulson Royal scene seen sexual sitter social society Southwark Fair Stages of Cruelty subjects suggests TATE theatre theatrical Tom's underlined urban visual Walpole William Hogarth woman