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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.
#williamhogarth
The clergyman with the telescope is guessed to be Horace Walpole, his chair being pushed over by Stephen Fox. Walpole was a #Freemason and lecturer on optics.
However he had no known connections with this group, so the identification is still debatable! #williamhogarth
Charity in the Cellar detail: If all the identifications are correct, these men are all members of parliament or of political background.
The man to the right is holding open the wine tap, creating a visible pun on his friend’s penis. 🤔
#williamhogarth #18thcentury #rococo
A rather over-fed and overdressed French boy for the streets of London...
#williamhogarth #london #18thcentury
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! #18thcentury
Details from The Gaols Committee.
The accused, (supposedly Thomas Bambridge) clenching his fists on the left, while the jury examine the illegal shackles and torture instruments on the table.
#williamhogarth #rococo #18thcentury #fleet #politics
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love William Hogarth x
#loveisintheair #valentinesday #art
The Good Samaritan - the second of Hogarth’s canvases for St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The bearded Samaritan pours healing ointments onto the wounded and robbed Israelite 🙏🏻
#williamhogarth #18thcentury #rococo
A Midnight Modern Conversation - known solely from #Hogarth’s engraving from 1732.
A glimpse of what the painting may have looked like can be seen in “The Battle Of The Pictures”.
The image shows 11 drunk men around a table at 4am, can anyone relate??
#williamhogarth #drunk
Portrait of Jane Thornhill who Hogarth met as the daughter of his teacher Sir James Thornhill. He eloped with Jane and married, but did not have any children together. #williamhogarth #portrait #rococo #18thcentury