Engravings by Hogarth (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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This book contains 101 of Hogarth’s finest and most important engravings, including all of the major series or “progresses”: “The South Sea Scheme,” A Harlot’s Progress, “A Middle of the night Modern Conversation,” A Rake’s Progress, Before and After, Marriage à la Mode, Industry and Idleness, “The March to Finchley,” The Four Stages of Cruelty, “Time Smoking a Picture,” “Tailpiece,” and plenty of more, including ten study sketches and paintings that show how the final works evolved.
Sean Shesgreen, a foremost authority on Hogarth, has consistently selected the most productive states of the plates for use in this edition and has carefully introduced them, commenting upon the artist’s milieu and the importance of plot, character, time, setting, and other dimensions. A most important aspect of this book, found in no other Hogarth edition, is the positioning of the editor’s remark on each and every plate on a facing page. With the improbable and infrequently overwhelming amount of detail and action going on in these engravings, this can be a most helpful feature.

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