William Hogarth (1697-1764) Gallery

William Hogarth Gin Lane

Vintage engraving of showing a scene from William Hogarth's Beer Street and Gin Lane. They depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. Set in the parish of St Giles, a notorious slum district, Gin Lane depicts the squalor and despair of a community raised on gin. With shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide

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Hogarths, Masquerades and Operas

Vintage engraving of William Hogarth's Masquerades and Operas (The Bad Taste of the Town), Burlington Gate. First published in February 1723/24. It mocks the contemporary fashion for foreign culture, including Palladian architecture, pantomimes based on the Italian commedia dell'arte, masquerades (masked balls), and Italian opera

William Hogarth Marriage A La Mode The Ladys Death

Vintage engraving of showing a scene from William Hogarth's Marriage A La Mode. Marriage A La Mode is a series of six pictures depicting a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money and satirises patronage and aesthetics. The Countess has returned to her father's house after her husbandA?A?A?s murder. The moral drama is concluded with her having moved from dissipation and vice to misery and shame, and finally to terminating her existence by suicide after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband

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