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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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William Hogarth fought animal cruelty w/ art. Jack Russell Hogarth just wants to hop in your lap! http://bit.ly/49DQfD
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ernestopriego (Ernesto Priego) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:34:10 -0000
Would the British Museum use the phrase "cheaply produced" to describe the works of William Hogarth? #comics
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London's Street Noises: “The Enraged Musician” by William Hogarth ...: William Hogarth's famous 1741 et.. http://bit.ly/2xkSNK
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Writing a (suggested) revision of the Western Canon. And yet totally in love with William Hogarth.
Today: 1861, Pony Express officially ceased, 1717, Catherine Sedley (King Janes II mistress), dies 1764, William Hogarth dies.
silver_crystal (Carolyn Schmidt) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:38:33 -0000
Today: 1861, Pony Express officially ceased, 1717, Catherine Sedley (King Janes II mistress), dies 1764, William Hogarth dies.
Take Me to the Southwark Fair - William Hogarth - Extensive interpretation of William Hogarth's engraving as a graphic account of the social and cultural state of the lower urban class in early eighteenth century England
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