Print Description
Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 49.9 x 38.5 cm (19.65 x 15.16 inch). Image size: 45.5 x 34.5 cm. (17.91 x 13.58 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Light paper spot in bottom left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
WILLIAM HOGARTH, SOUTHWARK FAIR, SATIRE, BRITISH ART, 18TH CENTURY, FAIRS | PCO-C7-13
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Reference: Paulson 1989: 131 I/I; Paulson 1965/70: 131 I/I.
Biography engraver: William Hogarth FRSA (1697-1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”, and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot’s Progress, A Rake’s Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as “Hogarthian”.
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