William  Hogarth
1697 London 1764

• Variant side-correct to the oil of “Paul before Felix” :
  And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and Judgment to come, Felix trembled (71a)
• “A Masterpiece of Physiognomic Character Portrayal”
  Simon Lord Lovat, ten days before execution
• A terrifying timeless-topical didactic example :
  John Wilkes or The Attempt
  “to set Despotism … at the Place of the Legal Forms”
• Owes its creation to Colley Cibber’s Drury Lane production :
  King Henry the Eigth & Anna Bullen (Boleyn)
• The “very rare” sheet :
  Frontispiece to (Dr. Brook) Taylor’s Perspective
• Of downright frightening timelessness :
  The Four Stages of Cruelty as an “Restrain the Beginnings!”
• Once a Famous Fair in London
  or
  A Leg wanders through Art History;
  Southwark Fair
• When laughing was still permitted :
  The Laughing Audience –
  “The Masterly Reproduction of all Nuances of Laugh”
• Possibly the most original actor :
  Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard the Third
• The Farmer’s Return – Frontispiece to Garrick’s comedy
• Garrick is the greatest :
  Fac Similie of the Proportions of Garrick and Quin
• Need of reforms with the execution of sentence :
  Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons
• Stirred immense sensation :
  Analysis of Beauty. Set of 2 sheets
• Statuary’s Inn Yard
• Country Dance
• Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
• One of Hogarth’s most concentrated charges :
  John Wilkes Esqr. + The Times – The Hero of the Press + The Political Blaze
• Vanity raising value :
  The Time Smoking a Picture (As Statues moulder into Worth)
• The Portrait of corrupted parties :
  Four Prints of an Election – timeless through the centuries
• A poor class :
  The Distressed Poet as co-worker of the daily press
• So strange :
  Shrimps! The crab-girl
• Newspaper reading with second thoughts :
  The Politician does not recognize that it’s already burning at his own
• The Power and the Parliament
  Cromwell’s symbolic Reichstagsbrand
  Burning (the) Rumps at Temple-Barr
• Crackling Sujet of Earthy Liveliness
  Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington or The Antichristian Opera
• Wer wird sich denn gleich erschießen?
  A Country Inn Yard (or The Election Procession in the Yard)
• Established Hogarth’s fame :
  A Harlot’s Progress
• The silver age :
  Quarrels with the Jew Protector
• The drug’s mess :
  Expires while the Doctors are Disputing
• “What a strong bulwark!” :
  The Funeral Company
• “His most famous cycle (of paintings)” :
  Marriage à la Mode (or the Joys of Wedlock …)
• The complete Hogarth in Anthony Peacock’s copy :
  158 plates, described & commented by the Rev. John Trusler
• More than just a setting for Ridinger’s Memento Mori :
  The Lively World of Piety + Vanitates

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