Volume 40, Number 10 · May 27, 1993
The Genius of Gin Lane
By Richard Dorment
Hogarth: Volume 1: The 'Modern Moral Subject,' 1697–1732
by Ronald Paulson
Rutgers University Press, Vol. 1, 411 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Hogarth: Volume 2: High Art and Low, 1732–1750
by Ronald Paulson
Rutgers University Press, Vol. 2, 477 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Hogarth: Volume 3: Art and Politics, 1750–1764
by Ronald Paulson
Rutgers University Press, Vol. 3, 680 pp., $24.95 (paper)
You have to go London to see the work of William Hogarth, but once there you ought to be able to take in most of his major paintings in a single day, on foot, starting from the Thomas Coram Foundation (the Foundling Hospital), and moving on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the Sir John Soane Museum, the Tate, and the National Gallery. A second day spent at the British Museum with his prints, followed by a sentimental spin out to Hogarth's house in Chiswick, and you've seen the best of him.
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