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.
prints
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.
One of the finest print-makers and porcelain designers (and his Impressionist wife), another vanished painter, and another who died just after the Second Exhibition.
A short well-illustrated overview of his paintings, prints, and illustrations. Another Christmas gift, perhaps?
The Eclectic Light Company 