Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Observeart: William Hogarth. A Harlot’s Progress and Other Stories- the National Gallery of Denmark



William Hogarth
First Stage of Cruelty
1750 - 1751
433 x 362 mm
SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark

Prostitution, poverty, violence, drunkenness and deceit. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark focuses on the British artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697–1764). His original series offered wry commentaries on eighteenth-century city life, and he is now regarded as one of the first major English artists. 

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