Hogarth
Subtitle: a life and a world
By: Jenny Uglow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 794
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Artists -- England -- Biography; London (England) -- In art
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 717-770) and index.