Hogarth
Subtitle: a life and a world
By: Jenny Uglow.
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 794
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.; Artists -- England -- Biography.; London (England) -- In art.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 717-770) and index.
Simultaneously published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Girous.