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Today's Characters & Caricaturas subscription ticket for Marriage A-la Mode 1744. This copy, signed & sealed by H, is written out to Thomas Herring AB of York, whose portrait by H the prelate declared ‘None of my friends can bear' 🧐 (see 29 Mar)

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2020-06-13

Today's frontispiece for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy engr Ravenet 1760. Dr Slop snoozes, Walter Shandy & Uncle Toby smoke, while Corp Trim stands 'his knee bent, but that not violently-but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'😉

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2020-06-12

➡️Autoportrait au chien, 1745.
➡️Miss Mary Edwards (mécène et amie de William Hogarth), 1742.
William Hogarth (1697-1764), graveur, peintre anglais.

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2020-06-11

Today's William Jones FRS 1740. Son of Angelsey yeoman farmer, WJ was a gifted mathematician thru which he met Sir Isaac Newton. In honour, H may have used J Vanderbank's portrait of Sir I as a model see 👇https://t.co/nKMhX5nwyz

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2020-06-11

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) - James Gurney

Dynamic Light and Shade Paperback – Burne Hogarth

How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity - Scott Robinson

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2020-06-11

Today's fab unused drawing associated w/ Industry & Idleness (see 21 & 27 May) 1746-47. Here Tom Idle steals from his loving ma, standing at the door of Fowlers Cooke Shop w/ various meats & pies displayed at open windows & a steaming pot on the stove

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2020-06-09

“Hogarth’s Servants” (c.1750)

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2020-06-05

Wonderful to see photos of a mackerel seller and muffin man - proud traditions! See Laroon's print from 1688 https://t.co/hcW3TGToSh Hogarth's from the 1740s https://t.co/KbiAV7kkzy. https://t.co/uhzIXFaL6O

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2020-06-01

[1 of 2 tweets] A Rake's Progress - 8 paintings by William Hogarth (GB, 1697–1764). First 4 pictures: (1) The Heir (2) The Levée (3) The Orgy (4) The Arrest. Tom Rakewell, heir & spendthrift son. Note the Rose Tavern, a famous brothel in Covent Garden - and then arrest for debt.

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2020-05-31

Humours of an Election by William Hogarth 1754–55
Oil on Canvas
(Sir John Soane's Museum London)

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2020-05-28

Richard awakes suddenly the night before the Battle of Bosworth, haunted by those he had murdered.

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2020-05-29

William Hogarth painted this portrait of actor David Garrick as Richard III in 1745 (). It is the first great British theatrical portrait, but presents the scene as a history painting.

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2020-05-29

More practice. Hogarth the Flayed. Red knight.

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2020-05-28

Just some sketches from Iron Giant Hogarth was probably one of the coolest kids to be on TV

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2020-05-23

Today's is James McArdell's fab mezzotint after H's Rembrandt-style portrait of friend & engraver John Pine (original c.1755). H used JP as model for the friar in Calais Gate (1748 engr 1749) leading to the nickname "Friar Pine". Prints

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2020-05-18

Portrait of Augusta of Saxe Gotha, 1738, William Hogarth

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2020-05-16

Today's is a question of identification. Left, a lovely portrait by Billy 1744/5, currently described as an unknown woman & right, L-F Roubiliac's splendid marble bust of Arabella Aufrere (private collection) pic the suggested sitter

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2020-05-15

Hogarth's Servants, 1750's oil-on-canvas by William Hogarth

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2020-05-11

Too gloomy, but 1837, beloved sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth, "that spirit which directs my life" (& inspired a number of his characters) died in his arms https://t.co/DRQZYSmUSi

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2020-05-07

Today’s is this stunning & affectionate portrait of the Hogarths’ household servants 1750-5. Their identity is uncertain. An early biog lists a Ben Ives, Mrs Chapel was a maid at Chiswick & Jane H had a servant called Samuel. The central man is likely a Quaker

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2020-05-05