And a great self-promoter and propagandist - plenty of modern parallels. Somehow he and his supporters managed to turn Hogarth's caricature of him into something positive - "Wilkes and Liberty"

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Goya/Hogarth at gets glowing review in The :
'Goya's prints of war, madness and folly are founding masterpieces of modern art ... His nightmares were anticipated by Hogarth's ... groteque scenes ... This show compares these great printmakers.'

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It’s National Dog Day! I hope all of you dog owners pamper your pooch extravagantly 🐶

Here is Hogarth’s dog. Held by the Tate gallery "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character."

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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It's and this week's word is intaglio: a print where the design is created by scraping away areas+inserting ink within the grooves created.
IMAGE: William Hogarth (1697-1764) False Perspective, 1753, etching on paper, On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site

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Here is the original print of John Wilkes made by Hogarth in 1763. There were many copies in all sorts of media. Hogarth was mocking Wilkes, but the image was used by Wilkes's supporters to promote the cause of liberty against oppressive government.

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Balanced herring and oversized mug – a bad mix!
Detail from William Hogarth’s 1751 engraving “Beer Street”. Gift of Dr. Paul Fritz to McMaster Museum of Art.

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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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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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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