From the Original Drawing by Hogarth. London...E T Brain & co. 88 Fleet St London
Cartographer : - Hogarth, William 1697 - 1764
- Date: - 1850
- Size: - 10 1/2in x 8in (265mm x 200mm) each
- Ref#: - 90893, 90894, 90895, 90896
- Condition: - (A+) Fine Condition
Description:
These original four steel-plate engraved antique prints by William Hogarth - of Various Historical & Political, Social commentaries of the 18th century - were engraved by various English engravers of the day - including Edward Smith, Charles Armstrong, Davenport & Allard, Worthington, Jordan, Duncan - and was published in the 1850 E T Brain & co. edition of The Works of William Hogarth.
General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 10 1/2in x 8in (265mm x 200mm) each
Plate size: - 10 1/2in x 8in (265mm x 200mm) each
Margins: - Min ½in (12mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - Light spotting
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None
Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called modern moral subjects He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlots Progress, A Rakes Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as Hogarthian.
Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver, but did not complete the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed Williams paintings and prints with a hard edge.
Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarths works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarths images to be books, filled with the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read.
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