The first of 4 articles looking at an extraordinary narrative series of 34 paintings, many of them quite beautiful.
Hogarth
His early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.
What do Bosch’s many owls signify? Wisdom, night, or something more sinister?
Known exclusively for his illustrations, Doré painted many large works in oils. He was a master story-teller in those too.
This series was Hogarth’s attempt to reduce the amount and severity of cruelty to animals by linking that to crime and murder of humans.
The concluding prints and drawings for them in this narrative series. Includes two drawings which never became prints.
First of two parts looking at the narrative in this series of prints, and Hogarth’s process from drawing to final print.
Hogarth’s series spawned several others, the most significant being by Augustus Egg and William Frith.
His most famous, and brilliantly painted, narrative series, and an experimental oddity.
The series A Harlot’s Progress and A Rake’s Progress told detailed and complex narratives using paintings alone.
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