1768 Hogarth Moralized Complete Edition of Hogarth's Works Engravings

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! Hogarth Moralized Being A Complete Edition of Hogarth's Works. Containing Near Fourscore Copper-Plates, Most Elegantly Engraved, with An Explanation, Pointing Out the Many Beauties That May Have Hitherto Escaped Notes; and A Comment on Their Moral Tendency By William Hogarth; Edited by Jane Hogarth 1768 - London - S. Hooper 8.5" by 5"; (viii) 212pp. (iii) DETAILS A collection of the engravings of William Hogarth, an influential eighteenth-century artist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. With nearly eighty of hie engravings, each with commentary by the publisher. Hogarth's 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 1731, he completed the earliest of the series of moral works which first gave him recognition as a great and original genius. This was A Harlot's Progress , first as paintings, (now lost), and then published as engravings. In its six scenes, the miserable fate of a country girl who began a prostitution career in town is traced out remorselessly from its starting point, the meeting of a bawd, to its shameful and degraded end, the whore's death of venereal disease and the following merciless read more

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