today with the lovely spaniel in the back of ‘Girl with a Birdcage, said to be of the Stamford Family’ by

Possibly painted as a memorial to a deceased child - her pale complexion and handkerchief wrapped round her neck. 👼🏻

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Now at the Whitworth Manchester! :) Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. https://t.co/XVzZtbup95

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¿Cual es la razón de sentir amor si solo vas a salir herido?
¿Es mejor guardar tus sentimientos y ahogarte en ese mar de miedo?
y si...¿esa persona te rechaza por no aceptar lo diferente y extraño para ella?
¿es mejor arriesgar?...o...¿prefieres ahogarte?
solo es una respuesta?.

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NOW OPEN: Prints of Darkness - & used their role as artists to reflect on dysfunctional European societies. Startlingly familiar to today's viewer in their content, their works cause us to turn our gazes on our own society & ourselves. https://t.co/FS8sTab3TB

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OPENS TOMORROW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition is the first to show and works together, and features 100 prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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First - George II and Family in a Park (sketch) and second - ‘Kent’s Temple on a Mount in Richmond Gardens’

A projected conversation piece of the royal family that was never completed, and remained in studio.

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HRH William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as a Boy. (1732)

The youngest and favourite son of George II and Queen Caroline, painted in Hogarth’s nearly successful effort to gain the favour of the royal family 👸🏻🤴🏻

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Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.

Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by

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NEW VIDEO: William Hogarth painted this portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1668–1751) to be a 'mighty' rival to the paintings of his European counterparts. Watch a new video to learn the story https://t.co/2qrmD3Hv2o

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The Ascension Altarpiece, Triptych for St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol.

These 3 pieces depict the story of the resurrection of Christ after the crucifixion, and his ascension to heaven forty days later 🌤

Each quoting texts from the King James Bible.

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Detail of a 1730s conversation piece by William Hogarth. The small hands holding a silver tray at bottom left are all that remain of an enslaved African boy, who was cut out of the canvas by someone unscrupulous. https://t.co/Z1lcwTdel8

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Furry Fridays is back! 🐶

This week we feature the furry friend that is the spaniel in ‘Before’ and ‘After’ by

Protecting his owner at all times!

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Stuck for something to do today?

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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Our Director Caro Howell talked to about William Hogarth’s portrait of Thomas Coram. See the full video at https://t.co/769G78ANDj

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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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Details from Hogarth's Gin Lane - which you can see up close at our next week! https://t.co/Wsp9vOvDEd

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James Gillray followed Hogarth with Prime Minister Pitt as the Devil, Queen Charlotte as Sin and Lord Chancellor Thurlow as Satan. Dorothy George said the "outrageous representation of the Queen, is said to have given great offence at Court", see https://t.co/NlnfTlbg0x.

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