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William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26,1764) was a major English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to Comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects.” Much of his work, though at times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs.
Early years
The son of a poor schoolteacher and textbook writer, William Hogarth was born at Bartholomew Close in London on November 10, 1697. In his youth he was apprenticed to the silver-plate engraver Ellis Gamble in Leicester Fields, where he learned to engrave shopcards and the like. Young William also took a lively interest in the street life of the metropolis and the London fairs, and amused himself by sketching the characters he saw. At around the same time, his father, who had opened an unsuccessful Latin-speaking coffee house at St John's Gate, was imprisoned for debt in Fleet Prison for five years. Hogarth never talked about the fact. By April 1720 he was engraver on his own account, at first engraving coats of arms, shop bills, and designing plates for booksellers. Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (c.1721).The South Sea Scheme is about the disastrous stock market crash of 1720 known as the South Sea Bubble, where many English people lost a great deal of money. In the bottom left corner, he shows Protestant, Catholic and Jewish figures gambling, while in the middle there is a huge merry-go-round like machine, which people are getting on to ride. At the top is a goat, written below which is "Who'l Ride" and this shows the stupidity of people in following the crowd in buying South Sea Company stock, a company which spent more time issuing stock than actually producing anything. The people are scattered around the picture with a real sense of disorder, which represented the confusion. The progress of the well dressed people towards the ride in the middle shows how foolish some people could be, which is not entirely their own fault.
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paulrance59 (Paul Rance) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:27:44 -0000
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@exotoxine Hilliard,Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, William Blake, et bien d'autres encore ! \o/
megugu (megu) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:59:08 -0000
@exotoxine Hilliard,Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, William Blake, et bien d'autres encore ! \o/
Should be excellent: Tues 05 Jan the National Gallery lecture at 10:30: William Hogarth, Painter and Engraver of London Life
ERMurray (elizabeth rose) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:33:10 -0000
Should be excellent: Tues 05 Jan the National Gallery lecture at 10:30: William Hogarth, Painter and Engraver of London Life
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