William Hogarth

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The Economist

2014年10月27日上午7:59 · 

On this day 250 years ago William Hogarth, the English painter and printmaker, died suddenly from an aneurysm at his studio in Leicester Square, London. As an artist who portrayed both the tragic and the ridiculous with aplomb, Hogarth was one of the eighteenth century's most sparkling talents http://econ.st/1nH252T

The Public Domain Review






William Hogarth — the 18th-century printmaker known for his satirical and cutting commentary on society's foibles — died today in 1764. Pictured here is his Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762), completed just 2 years before his death. The strange scene in the lower left corner is a reference to Mary Toft, a woman from Surrey who claimed she'd given birth to a litter of rabbits, an elaborate hoax which even had King George I’s own court physicians fooled. Read more about the remarkable story here: https://publicdomainreview.org/…/mary-toft-and-her-extraor…/