William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer who lived from 1697 to 1764 and is considered by far the most significant English artist of his generation. He pioneered what he called modern moral subjects, narrative series of pictures resembling comic strips that satirized society, most famously A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode, distributed widely as prints in his lifetime. His influence was such that satirical political illustration in his manner is still called Hogarthian, and the writer Charles Lamb observed that his pictures are to be read rather than merely looked at.
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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.
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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697-26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", a
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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697-26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", a
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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697-26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", a
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Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin (the
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A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732) by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mar
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