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Unusual and imaginative illustrations, carefully arranged into four major divisions (quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects), include realistic and fanciful depictions of virtually every real animal, plus such fantasy creatures as unicorns, dragons and basilisks. Indispensable volume of copyright-free graphics for immediate use by commercial and graphic artists; fascinating subjects for art lovers, antiquarians, and anyone interested in the ideas and art of an earlier era.
William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints
hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted
the great and good but also the common people. His art is comically
exuberant, 'carried away by a passion for the ridiculous', as
Hazlitt said. Jenny Uglow, acclaimed author of Elizabeth Gaskell,
Nature's Engraver and In These Times, uncovers the man, but also
the world he sprang from and the lives he pictured. He moved in the
worlds of theatre, literature, journalism and politics, and found
subjects for his work over the whole gamut of eighteenth century
London, from street scenes to drawing rooms, and from churches to
gambling halls and prisons. After striving years as an engraver and
painter, Hogarth leapt into lasting fame with A Harlot's Progress
and A Rake's Progress, but remained highly critical of the growing
gulf between the luxurious lives of the ruling elite and the
wretched poverty of the massess. William Hogarth was an artist of
flamboyant, overflowing imagination, he was a satirist with an
unerring eye; a painter of vibrant colour and tenderness; an
ambitious professional who broke all the art-world taboos. Never
content, he wanted to excel at everything - from engraving to
history painting - and a note of risk runs through his life.
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, Hogarth: A Life and a World
brings art history to life in the voices of Hogarth's own age. The
result is an unforgettable portrait of a great artist and a proud,
stubborn, comic, vulnerable man.
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Catalogue of the English, German, French, and Italian Chromos, Lithographs, Engravings, Oil Paintings, Decalomanie, Drawing-books, &c., &c., &c. of the Importation and Publication of Max Jacoby & Zeller.
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