Hogarth's illustrations to books, and his own seminal graphic narrative sequences are well known and, thanks to Ronald Paulson in particular, critically discussed with intelligence. This small selection is intended as a reminder of Hogarth's narrative skills, as a reference for dates and a repository of lesser known images and telling details.

DATES OF HIS PRINCIPAL NARRATIVES
1732; A Harlot's Progress
1735; A Rake's Progress
1736; Before and After
1738; The Four Times of the Day
1745; Marriage à la Mode
1747; Industry and Idleness
1750/1; Beer Street and Gin Lane
1750/1; The Four Stages of Cruelty
1753; The Analysis of Beauty published
1750/1; Four Prints of an Election
1764; Tail Piece The Bathos (see above)

a few token plates for you

01 Scholars at a Lecture, etched and engraved 1736/7, and an effective study of boredom.

02 Royalty, Episcopacy and Law Some of the Principal Inhabitants of the Moon , etching and engraving, 1724/5

03 Time Smoking a Picture , etched and engraved 1761 Tail Piece ;

04 The Bathos, etched and engraved 1764
 

 

ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY PLATES 1753

 

THE LOTTERY 1724

CHARACTERS AND CARICATURAS 1743