Antique Master Print-ELECTION-ENTERTAINMENT-Hogarth-c.1755

Medium: Engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 54 x 40.5 cm (21.26 x 15.94 inch). Image size: 53 x 39 cm. (20.87 x 15.35 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Paper with chipping at top not effecting the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

WILLIAM HOGARTH, ELECTION, POLITICS, SATIRE, BRITISH ART, 18TH CENTURY | PCO-P7-13

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: DYCE COLLECTION, South Kensington Museum, Catalogue, 1874.

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”.