William Hogarth

William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26,1764) was a major British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to Comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects.” Much of his work poked humorous, at times vicious, fun at contemporary politics and customs.

Bibliography

• Peter Quennell, Hogarth's Progress (London, New York 1955)
• Frederick Antal, Hogarth and His Place in European Art (London 1962)
• David Bindman, Hogarth (London 1981)
• Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works (3rd edn, London 1989)
• Ronald Paulson, Hogarth, 3 vols. (New Brunswick 1991-93)
• Jenny Uglow, Hogarth: A Life and a World (London 1997)
• Frédéric Ogée and Peter Wagner, eds., William Hogarth: Theater and the Theater of Life (Los Angeles, 1997)
• Hans-Peter Wagner, William Hogarth: Das graphische Werk (Saarbrücken, 1998)
• David Bindman, Frédéric Ogée and Peter Wagner, eds. Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machines (Manchester, 2001)