Excerpt from William Hogarth
The career of William Hogarth, though in itself uneventful, touched the life of his times at many points, and offers an almost inexhaustible field for investigation and comment. Furttermore, his activity as graphic artist is by no means confined to the production of the moral and satirical designs by which he is chiefly known. Any catalogue of his paintings will reveal a surprising productiveness on his part in work which is not naturally connected with him in our minds. He painted life-size portraits, and essayed his hand more than once in figure-pieces of a monumental size and on exalted themes. The relations of these very different kinds of work to each other and to his whole ?uvre are not easy to fix, and the judgments of critics on their comparative values have varied from age to age. Hence there is always room for a fresh and independent treatment of Hogarth's life and art, such as is attempted in the following pages.
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