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Posters Mexico!
10 Poster Biennial , 2008, Mexico City / bienal Internacional del Cartel en Mexico
Posters Mexico Questions
William Hogarth Nov. 10th 1697 to Oct. 26th 1764
One of England’s greatest artists was William Hogarth who was born in London on November 10th 1697 to Richard Hogarth, a poor Latin school teacher and textbook writer and Anne Gibbons . He was most famous for selling prints of his work throughout London and showing the social history of London Folk during the 18th. Century. It was because Hogarth wanted to protect his art prints from copiers that he helped create the World’s first Copyright law.
His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as “Hogarthian.”
In his youth he was apprenticed to the engraver Ellis Gamble in Leicester Fields where he learned to engrave trade cards and similar products. Young Hogarth also took a lively interest in the street life of the metropolis and the London fairs, and amused himself by sketching the characters he saw. Around the same time, his father, who had opened an unsuccessful Latin-speaking coffee house at St. John’s Gate was imprisoned for debt in Fleet prison for five years. Hogarth never spoke of his father’s imprisonment.
Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme 1721 about the disastrous stock market crash of 1720 known as the South Sea Bubble in which many English people lost a great deal of money.
On 23 March 1729 Hogarth married Jane Thornhill, daughter of artist Sir James Thornhill. Hogarth was initiated as a Freemason some time before 1728 in the Lodge at the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern, Little Queen Street, and later belonged to the Carrier Stone Lodge and the Grand Stewards’ Lodge; the latter still possesses the ‘Hogarth Jewel’ which Hogarth designed for the Lodge’s Master to wear. Today the original is in storage and a replica is worn by the Master of the Lodge. Freemasonry was a theme in some of Hogarth’s work, most notably ‘Night’, the fourth in the quartet of paintings (later released as engravings) collectively entitled the Four times of The Day.
One of his masterpieces is the depiction of an amateur performance of John Dryden’s The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico (1732–1735) at the home of John Conduitt master of the Mint, in St. George’s Street, Hanover Square, London.
Hogarth’s other works in the 1730s include A Midnight Modern Conversation (1733), Southwark Fair (1733), The Sleeping Congregation (1736), Before and After (1736), Scholars at a Lecture (1736), The Company of Undertakers (Consultation of Quacks) (1736), The Distrest Poet (1736), The Four Times of The Day (1738), and The Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738). He may also have printed Burlington Gate (1731), evoked by Alexander Pope’s Epistle to Lord Burlington and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized. This print gave great offence, and was suppressed (some modern authorities no longer attribute this to Hogarth).
In 1743–1745 Hogarth painted the six pictures of Marriage-a-la-mode (National Gallery, London) a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the miserable tragedy of an ill-considered marriage for money. This is regarded by many as his finest project, certainly the best piece of his serially-planned story cycles.
The series, which are set in a Classical interior, shows the story of the fashionable marriage of the son of bankrupt Earl Squanderfield to the daughter of a wealthy but miserly city merchant, starting with the signing of a marriage contract at the Earl’s mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife’s lover and the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband.
William Makepeace Thackary wrote:
This famous set of pictures contains the most important and highly wrought of the Hogarth comedies. The care and method with which the moral grounds of these pictures are laid is as remarkable as the wit and skill of the observing and dexterous artist. He has to describe the negotiations for a marriage pending between the daughter of a rich citizen Alderman and young Lord Viscount Squanderfield, the dissipated son of a gouty old Earl … The dismal end is known. My lord draws upon the counselor, who kills him, and is apprehended while endeavouring to escape. My lady goes back perforce to the Alderman of the City, and faints upon reading Counsellor Silvertongue’s dying speech at Tyburn (place of execution in old London), where the counselor has been executed for sending his lordship out of the world. Moral: don’t listen to evil silver-tongued counselors; don’t marry a man for his rank, or a woman for her money; don’t frequent foolish auctions and masquerade balls unknown to your husband; don’t have wicked companions abroad and neglect your wife, otherwise you will be run through the body, and ruin will ensue, and disgrace, and Tyburn.
Hogarth died in London on 26th October 1764 and was buried at St. Nicholas’s Churchyard, Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, London. His friend, actor David Garrick composed the following inscription for his tombstone:
Farewell great Painter of Mankind
Who reach’d the noblest point of Art
Whose pictur’d Morals charm the Mind
And through the Eye correct the Heart.
If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay,
If Nature touch thee, drop a Tear:
If neither move thee, turn away,
For Hogarth’s honour’d dust lies here.
During a long period of his life, Hogarth tried to achieve the status of history Painter, but unsuccessful in his goal.
Please visit my Hogarth Art Prints Collection @ http://www.fabprints.com/HOGARTH.html
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The Chinese call Britain ‘The Island of Hero’s’ which I think sums up what we British are all about. We British are inquisitive and competitive and are always looking over the horizon to the next adventure and discovery.
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I have recently decided to write articles on my favourite subjects: English Sports, English History, English Icons, English Discoveries and English Inventions.
At present I have written many articles which I call “An Englishman’s Favourite Bits Of England” as various chapters.
The Chinese call Britain ‘The Island of Hero’s’ which I think sums up what we British are all about. We British are inquisitive and competitive and are always looking over the horizon to the next adventure and discovery.
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