William HogarthMcClure, 1907 - 310 pages |
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66 Hogarth according to Act Act directs Act of Parliament advertisement afterwards appears April artist Belonged in 1833 Biographical Anecdotes bought Boydell British Museum Catalogue Chiswick Collection copy dated Design'd Duke Earl edition Engrav'd Exhibited at Whitechapel Exhibited in 1814 face Fairfax Murray fecit figures Foundling Hospital Frontispiece Garrick Genuine George George Steevens Gin Lane Graphic Illustrations Harlot's Progress Head Hoadly Hogarth Illustrated Hogarth pinx Hogarth's Engraving Hogarth's Etching Horace Walpole House Hudibras impressions inscription J. B. Nichols John Ireland June Lady Lane Leicester Fields letter Livesay London Lord Magazine March to Finchley Marriage A-la-Mode Mary Lewis mezzotint National Gallery Nichols Anecdotes Nichols's original drawing Original Painting Original Picture painter Plate portrait possession Price publication line published Rake's Progress reference Richard Royal satire says scene sculp Sigismunda Standly Steevens Street Subscription Ticket Wilkes William Hogarth Wm Hogarth
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Page 48 - Hogarth! Thou, I hear, a pleasant rogue art. Were but you and I acquainted, Every monster should be painted: You should try your graving tools On this odious group of fools; Draw the beasts as I describe them...
Page 84 - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
Page 68 - Are not the characters then taken from life ?" To which I answer in the affirmative ; nay, I believe I might aver, that I have writ little more than I have seen.
Page 50 - He who should call the Ingenious Hogarth a Burlesque Painter, would, in my Opinion, do him very little Honour: for sure it is much easier, much less the Subject of Admiration, to paint a Man with a Nose, or any other Feature of a preposterous Size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous Attitude, than to express the Affections of 253 Men on Canvas.
Page 146 - Mr. Hogarth's dutiful respects to Lord . Finding that he does not mean to have the picture which was drawn for him, is informed again of Mr.
Page 250 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 168 - Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, from Pictures, Drawings, and scarce Prints in the possession of Samuel Ireland,
Page 58 - I painted with most pleasure, and in which I particularly wished to excel, was that of Captain Coram for the Foundling Hospital ; and if I am so wretched an artist as my enemies assert, it is somewhat strange that this, which was one of the first I painted the si2e of life, should stand the test of twenty years...
Page 87 - While he was talking, he perceived a person standing at a window in the room, shaking his head, and rolling himself about in a strange ridiculous manner.
Page 50 - The Good Samaritan,' with figures seven feet high. These I presented to the charity, and thought they might serve as a specimen to show, that were there an inclination in England for encouraging historical pictures, such a first essay might prove the painting them more easily attainable than is generally imagined.
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