Engravings Av William Hogarth

<p>One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his generation, William Hogarth (1697¿1764) is best known for his acerbic, strongly moralising works, which were mass-produced and widely disseminated as prints during his lifetime....

The great 18th-century artist discusses and illustrates the use of serpentine lines in the expression of grace and beauty. William Hogarth defines six qualities ¿ fitness, variety, regularity, simplicity, intricacy, and quantity ¿ and dramatizes their...

William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn, comic, vulnerable man.