Plate One, from The Analysis of Beauty

1753·Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now in two parts, with the right side laid down on front book cover)·Image: 36.6 × 49 cm (14 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.); Plate: 41 × 54 cm (16 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 56.5 cm (16 9/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Gift of Kenneth Shopen

Catalogue

Year: 1753
Medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now in two parts, with the right side laid down on front book cover)
Dimensions: Image: 36.6 × 49 cm (14 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.); Plate: 41 × 54 cm (16 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 56.5 cm (16 9/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: William Hogarth

Artist

William Hogarth

Painting

William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

London, UK

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