# hogarth 900thanniversary goodfriday nhs

In our 17th & last Sunday we return to Pool of Bethesda & Good Samaritan 1736/7. are raising ££ to restore this fab building & stairs for in 2023 see👇4 events & to donate https://t.co/FOIQDS2A9N

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2020-07-19

Today's H's fab design for frontispiece to Henry Fielding's 'The Tragedy of Tragedies' engraved G van der Gucht 1730/1. Princess Huncamunca inspects her love rival, Amazon Glumdalca by candlelight w/ their hero, wee Tom Thumb, standing by, arms folded

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2020-07-15

Today's celebrates reopening of wonderful 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

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2020-07-08

Our 15th Sunday H's tomb 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" pics. Whistler is also buried here

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2020-07-05

This week on images of Billy H, starting w/ WE Edwards after WP Frith Hogarth before the Commandant at Calais 1860. Arrested as a spy, H told if there had been no peace between GB & Fr he wd have been hanged 'immediately on the ramparts.' NB H's pug🐕

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2020-06-29

Today's another unused design "The industrious 'prentice when a merchant, giving money to his parents" 4 Industry & Idleness 1747. H's early biographer, John Nichols says the image was intended to follow Pl 8 where Goodchild has 'grown rich' both pics

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2020-06-27

Today's engr for Richard Leveridge's Song Collection 1727, w/ a maid offering this book to Venus (Love) & Bacchus (Wine). Singer & composer, RL's career spanned 60 yrs working w/ Purcell, Handel & penning Roast Beef of Old England pic

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2020-06-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today's is the splendid Inigo Jones
1757 for Sir Ed Littleton, part of a "British worthies" scheme at Teddesley Park. H's pic is based on famous print by Bob van Voerst 1630-36 this version after Sir Tony van Dyck's drawing

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2020-04-20

Today's 2 red chalk drawings from the fab in NYC. Left, the complete composition for Paul Before Felix right, study for Roman soldier in Ascension Altarpiece Explore their wonderful collections here👇https://t.co/LiLfdKFTZv

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2020-04-11

On our is 'The Three Marys at the Sepulchre' from H's Ascension Altarpiece for now 1755-6, a monumental triptych 52ft in width. The crosses are seen in the distance, while an angel says "He is not here" & points heavenward

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2020-04-10

In Holy Week will focus on H's biblical subjects. Today is the fab sketch for The Pool of Bethesda c.1734-5 pendant to Good Samaritan. Here Jesus addresses the lame man saying 'wilt thou be made whole.'👇https://t.co/0LEWDiCFU9

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2020-04-06

Today's in hon of our fab is The Good Samaritan 1736 (nr H's birthplace) his 1st foray into grand history painting, in emulation of his hero & father-in-law Sir James Thornhill (cupola & Grt Hall ).👇https://t.co/VTFm5dd4yL

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2020-03-31

1st Sunday is the wonderful portrait of Thomas Herring, Archbish of York & then Canterbury painted 1744 reworked 1747. It was not a success w/ Herring declaring ‘None of my friends can bear Hogarth's picture’.🤔Idiots! Those sleeves!!👇
https://t.co/YvEx3uR2Fh

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2020-03-29