Hogarth
a life and a world
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
198,500 words, Guess
Page Count
794 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL661190M
- ISBN-100374171696
- OCLC Control Number36520958
- OCLC Control Numberhogarthlifeandwo0000uglo
- Library of Congress Control Number97006624
and 2 more
- Goodreads2005125
- LibraryThing8672
Classifications
- DDC760/.092
- LCCN6797.H6 U44 1997
Description
In 1130, at the age of thirty-three, William Hogarth began a series of six paintings called A Harlot's Progress. From humble beginnings as an engraver of silver plate, he was now well on his way to becoming one of the greatest and most popular figures of his age: a satirist with an unerring eye, an artist of flamboyant, overflowing imagination, and a painter of vibrant color and tenderness. Jenny Uglow uncovers the man, but also the world he sprang from, immersing us in eighteenth-century London and bringing to vibrant life the scenes that became the subjects of his prints and paintings: political follies like the South Sea Bubble, gatherings in bourgeois households and fashionable salons, lurid criminal acts and trials, and wretched institutions like Bedlam or debtors' prison.
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- Hogarth: a life and a world
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