William Hogarth: An Overview

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Biography

Works

• Portrait of Hogarth, by Himself
• Marriage à la Mode
• 1 [Arranging the marriage]
• 2 [The Morning After]
• 5 Death of the Earl painting -- detail -- engraving
• The Rake's Progress, 1733
• VII
• The Harlot's Progress, 1734
• I
• A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1734
• The Shrimp Girl -- a Sketch
• Garrick and His Wife
• Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism
• The March to Finchley
• Masquerades and Operas
• Industry and Idleness
• The Fellow Apprentices at their Looms
• The Industrious Apprentice performing the Duty of a Christian
• The Idle Apprentice at Play in the a Churchyard, during Divine Service
• The Industrious Apprentice a Favourite and entrusted by His Master
• The Idle 'Prentice turn'd away, and sent to Sea
• The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter
• The Idle 'Prentice returned from Sea, & in a Garrett with a common Prostitute
• The Industrious 'Prentice grown rich, & Sheriff of London
• The Idle 'Prentice betray'd by his Whore, & taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice
• The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle one brought before him & Impeach'd by his Accomplice
• The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn
• The Industrious 'Prentice Lord-Mayor of London

Related Web Materials

• Leading Questions

Artistic Relations -- Influence on the Victorians

• Hogarth, Phiz, and British book illustration
• Hogarth and the Pre-Raphaelites

References

Paulson, Ronald. Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975).

Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth: His Life, Art and Times, 2 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971.

Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. revised edition. 2 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970.

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Last modified 9 September 2004