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@GoonerPaul123 @AnnaLandmark @wabbey Reminiscent of George Richmond’s fab portrait from 1833 @NPGLondon
Last but by no means least on #HistoryWritersDay @Books2Cover #Hogarth LifeinProgress @ProfileBooks "Let Hogarth & his world, in these pages, lead you a wanton kind of chase." Signed copies available @Hatchards @WaterstonesPicc @Tate Britain @NationalGallery @SoaneMuseum @Foyles
This weekend 27/28 Nov is #HistoryWritersDay via @Books2Cover during which a regiment of brill history/art history and historical-fiction authors will be promoting their fab books. I may tweet about #Jacobites @FoundlingMuseum #Peterloo & Billy #Hogarth 😉 pics @NPGLondon📚🎄🎁🍾
"Marvellous & timely...makes sensitive & imaginative use of a wide range of often difficult & neglected sources, offering in the process a vivid& compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life &artistic achievements &of the nature of the man" Linda Colley 🙏 #Hogarth
Where was I? Next in the #Hogarth Hall of Fame, the wonderful team @TheLondonLib who, among other things, heroically organised book deliveries during lockdown - a lifeline over 2020. The online resources are worth the membership fee alone💐✨Cheers! 🍻
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Hogarth's "March of the Guards to Finchley" @FoundlingMuseum was inspired by events he witnessed in 1745 & completed 4 yrs after Culloden. This & other #Jacobite images incl Ld Lovat & Calais Gate feature in #Hogarth Life in Progress out 1 July. Available to preorder #Culloden275
In our 17th & last Sunday #DailyHogarth we return to Pool of Bethesda & Good Samaritan @BartsHospital 1736/7. @BartsHeritage @BartsFriends are raising ££ to restore this fab building & #Hogarth stairs for #900thAnniversary in 2023 see👇4 events & to donate https://t.co/FOIQDS2A9N
Today's #DailyHogarth H's fab design for frontispiece to Henry Fielding's 'The Tragedy of Tragedies' engraved G van der Gucht @britishmuseum 1730/1. Princess Huncamunca inspects her love rival, Amazon Glumdalca by candlelight w/ their hero, wee Tom Thumb, standing by, arms folded
Today's #DailyHogarth celebrates reopening of wonderful @FoundlingMuseum from TODAY w/ H's magnificent portrait of Capt Thomas Coram 1740, shipwright & founder of the Foundling Hospital. NB safety procedures & pre-booking in place👇above all have fab time! https://t.co/3SVlUOaWKo
Our 15th Sunday #DailyHogarth H's tomb @StNicksW4 Chiswick w/ Garrick's epitaph "Farewell great Painter of Mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of Art, Whose pictur'd Morals charm the Mind, And through the Eye correct the Heart" @britishmuseum pics. Whistler is also buried here