William Hogarth Paintings and Prints - Four Times of the Day, Beer Street and Gin Lane, the Four Stages of Cruelty, Industry and Idleness, List of Work (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Four Times of the Day, Beer Street and Gin Lane, The Four Stages of Cruelty, Industry and Idleness, List of works by William Hogarth, The Bench, The March of the Guards to Finchley, A Harlot's Progress, The Distrest Poet, Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo, The Enraged Musician, Marriage a-la-mode: 1. The Marriage Settlement, Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme, The Gate of Calais, A Rake's Progress, Columbus Breaking the Egg, Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn, Characters and Caricaturas, A Just View of the British Stage, Marriage a-la-mode: 2. The Tete a Tete, Taste in High Life, Five Orders of Periwigs, Humours of an Election, Marriage a-la-mode: 6. The Lady's Death, Marriage a-la-mode: 4. The Toilette, Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse, Marriage a-la-mode: 3. The Inspection, Marriage a-la-mode: 5. The Bagnio, David Garrick as Richard III, Satire on False Perspective, The Shrimp Girl, Line of Beauty, Scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. Excerpt: Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth. Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and the interactions between the rich and poor. Unlike many of Hogarth's other series, such as A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, Industry and Idleness, and The Four Stages of Cruelty, it does not depict the story of an individual, but instead focuses on the society of the city. Hogarth intended the series to be humorous rather than instructional; the pictures do not offer a judgment on whether the rich or poor are more deserving of the viewer's sympathies: while the upper and middle classes tend to provide the focus for each scene, ...