Country folk visiting Georgian London and returning unscathed with their purse or their virtue intact was said to be a rare thing. It was easy for gullible

During his lifetime, William Hogarth painted a number of satirical portraits in which he attacked folly and vice, including extravagance, drunkenness, and gambling. Hogarth was a theater enthusiast and thought of his paintings in dramatic as opposed to pictorial terms. "The Lady’s Last Stake" was inspired by a comedy of the same name by British playwright Colley Cibber (1671–1757), in which a married aristocratic woman gambles away her fortune to an army officer. The soldier then proposes…

Mary Young, aka Jenny Diver, was only in her 30s when she was executed in London

William Hogarth, A rake's progress (1733) "The eight paintings in William…

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Detail from The Toilette by William Hogarth

William Hogarth - Characters and Caricaturas - 1743

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Download scientific diagram | The exotic natural world. Historia Antipodum, 382. Courtesy Collection Maritiem Museum Rotterdam. from publication: America Abridged: Matthaeus Merian, Johann Ludwig Gottfried, and the Apotheosis of the De Bry Collection of Voyages | In 1631, Matthaeus Merian and Johann Ludwig Gottfried published a one-volume abridgment of the monumental America series issued by Theodor De Bry and his two sons. Historia Antipodum can be considered the apotheosis of the…

William Hoggart. Arest.