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Here is The Fishing Party - possibly Lady Sunderland and her Son John Sutton 🐟

This version was painted over a more reduced earlier piece and has been reworked many times.

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Charity in the Cellar painted by (left) and drawn by Richard Livesay after Hogarth (right).

The group vowed not to leave until they had drunk a hogshead of claret. While it seems they are mimicking the sculpted statue on the far right!

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The Pool of Bethesda which forms part of the staircase decoration of Bartholomew Hospital. It sits alongside The Good Samaritan, reflecting the hospital's caring for the sick.

The people seen at the Pool are said to be modelled on real patients!

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It’s National Puppy Day! Hogarth loved to paint dogs in his paintings, including pugs. Here are some cute pups by

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The Mackinen Children - William and Elizabeth.

The sunflower is a symbol of loyalty - it always faces toward the sun, the anomaly here - the other flowers behind are turning away from the main one.

Symbols of honouring both political sides?

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The chatelaine attached to Mary Edwards’ waist has a couple of interpretations:

1. Carries keys and tools necessary for a woman managing her own household.

2. The watch may be a ‘memento mori’ recognising her approaching death!

Thoughts?

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Hogarth making a joke about the craze for tiny lapdogs by including a minuscule one on an expensive cushion in Taste in High Life.

A craze that is very much still around!

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Possibly a trend going on here 🤔

Simone Pignoni, John Smith, and William Hogarth opting to represent their sitters holding a lamb representing the saint St.Agnes 🐑

She stood up to those telling her who to marry, and stuck by her chosen ‘husband’ Jesus Christ.

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The clergyman with the telescope is guessed to be Horace Walpole, his chair being pushed over by Stephen Fox. Walpole was a and lecturer on optics.

However he had no known connections with this group, so the identification is still debatable!

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The spinster carries a chatelaine at her waist showing a man from a bygone era - possibly a lover from long ago.

Suggesting she is a relic from times when the Piazza in Covent Garden was highly fashionable before it was taken over by taverns and coffee houses!

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