Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: University-Press.org

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781230599953

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: English caricaturists, Scottish caricaturists, William Hogarth, Max Beerbohm, James Gillray, Ronald Searle, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Gerald Scarfe, Mary and Matthew Darly, Ken Gill, Leslie Ward, Ralph Steadman, Thomas Rowlandson, Jim Bamber, Kenny Meadows, Steve Bell, Godfrey Douglas Giles, William Mecham, Martyn Turner, Phil May, John Collier, Isaac Cruikshank, Clive Francis, Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Francis Carruthers Gould, John Minnion, George Butterworth, William Austin, George Moutard Woodward, John Kay, Alex Hughes, Malky McCormick, Henry Bunbury, Emilio Coia, James Sayers, Roger Law, Richard Newton, Charles Williams, Bryan Charnley, Lewis Baumer, William Heath, Peter Fluck, Henry Wigstead, George Bickham the Younger. Excerpt: William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. 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." An early print of 1724, A Just View of the British StageWilliam Hogarth was born at Bartholomew Close in London to Richard Hogarth, a poor Latin school teacher and textbook writer, and Anne Gibbons. 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...