Hogarth on high life.
Subtitle: The Marriage à la mode series, from George Christoph Lichtenberg's commentaries.
By: Translated and edited by Arthur S. Wensinger with W. B. Coley.
Contributors: Wensinger, Arthur S., 1926- ed.; Coley, W. B., 1923- ed.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Other titles: Marriage à la mode series.
Description: "English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art."--Wikipedia.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 148-150.
Translation of pt. 4 of the author's Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche.
Appendices (p. 115-147): I. Lichtenberg on the Hogarth commentaries: extracts from certain of his letters.--II. Jean-André Rouquet's Explanation of the prints entitled Marriage à la mode.--III. Marriage a-la-mode: an humorous tale, in six cantos in hudibrastic verse.