Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth
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ISBN10: 1235704009
ISBN13: 9781235704000
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781235704000
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794. Excerpt: ... which is a mill, but the upper part a steeple, having a vane at the top of it; and a bell, plainly seen in the act of ringing or working: intimating, that by this instrument he works out of the church those good things, without which he would set little value upon his spiritualities: this treasure falls into a coffer, sarcastically marked as his own by the armorial bearings, a knife and fork, with the mitre added as a crest. Beneath the episcopal robe peeps a cloven foot and, if we may judge by the weather cock, the motion of the pump is in some degree actuated upon by the king, in whose quarter the wind seems to set. The head of law appears to be made of a large mallet or wedge. To this metaphor we can give no explanation: nor is the enormous size of the sword, which seems to betray more than common justice, an allusion so clearly understood as some other parts of the design. The composition of the courtier who attend monarchy, &c. is well conceived, and marks the contempt our artist entertained for the danglers in that situation. By the letters that appear marked in several parts of this print, it may be presumed that a full explanation of it was intended to have been given. The sagacity of the present day willr however, we conceive, render any farther elucidation of this print unnecessary, as the author's meaning is pretty clearly explained without those references. About this period an idea was suggested by Hogarth to his friends, that the profession of portrait painting might be considerably benefited if less time was required of the sitter, whose morning hours might, in many instances, be of so much value, as to render it inconvenient to allot so many of them to such purposes: he, therefore, proposed to paint a portrait in four sittings, allowing o...