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Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

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  • The battle of the pictures: between an auction house and Hogarth's studio, old master paintings are lined up in ranks outnumbering and attacking Hogarth's contemporary counterparts. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • Hudibras confronts with a pistol a club-wielding crowd, including Crowdero the fiddler with a peg leg, Talgot the butcher, and Orsin with his bear. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Four judges in heavy wigs, two of them are fast asleep. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • A crowd of spectators wait as Tom Idle is driven in a cart with his coffin to his place of execution and the gallows. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1747.
  • Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.

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