William Hogarth

She was then sent to live in the household of her father's sister Lady Stanley, to be trained in social graces and groomed for a post at court. Well into adulthood she pursued more...

In London, Sarah met William Hogarth , Thomas Gainsborough , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and Dr Samuel Johnson . She attracted Johnson's notice by producing from her pocket a copy of Paradise Lost, when...

She opens the essay with a sharp and witty caricature of others' representations of unmarried women: they have, it is true, gained much both socially and æsthetically in passing from the traditionary type—the withered prude...

The opera is based on the Hogarth series of paintings and engravings of the same title. Its premiere took place in Venice this year.

The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...

An adaptation of Hogarth 's series of prints, the book traces the modern-day rake's progress from throwing cocktail parties in his expensive flat to waiting for his dole money, by way of film investments, gambling...

The title-page quotes James Thomson . The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts sets out the fairly new idea that...

The National Portrait Gallery lists twelve portraits of HLP , dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her with her...

Like other theatrical performers, CC was portrayed by various artists in various roles. Critic Robert Folkenflik thinks she may appear in William Hogarth 's Southwark Fair as well as in John Laguerre 's The Stage Mutiny.

HHR 's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind...

The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler ). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, it proceeds...

The title comes from William Hogarth 's series of didactic engravings about the two apprentices, of whom the industrious one rises to be Lord Mayor while the idle one takes to crime and is hanged....

MB published (under this pseudonym, with which she was most closely identified) a biography entitled William Hogarth . The Cockney's Mirror.

MAW 's novel attacking divorce, entitled Marriage à la Mode, was serialised in Britain and the USA; retitled Daphne; or, "Marriage à la mode" in volume form to make it more palatable in Britain...

Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century covers (and illustrates) such well-known names as Hogarth , Gillray , and Rowlandson .