Plate Two, from The Analysis of Beauty

1756·Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now split in two, with the left side laid down on back book cover and the right side in two parts)·Image: 36.5 × 49.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Plate: 41.5 × 54.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1756
Medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now split in two, with the left side laid down on back book cover and the right side in two parts)
Dimensions: Image: 36.5 × 49.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Plate: 41.5 × 54.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 3/16 × 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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