Product Description: English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764) is most famous for his satirical caricatures and moral paintings, the forerunners of cartoons. In this instructive volume, the august painter and engraver discusses and illustrates the use of serpentine lines in the expression of grace and beauty...read more

Product Description: “One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity” *Special illustrated edition contains 14 illustrations by William Hogarth (1697 – 1764). The plate prints from his series of paintings The Harlot's Progress and The Rake's Progress perfectly capture the excess and resulting moral decline of mid 17th Century England as classes rich and poor fell to vice and drink, perfectly completing John Cleland's work, herein presented index hyper-linked for ease of reference and viewing pleasure within the table of contents...read more

Product Description: William Hogarth wrote his Analysis of Beauty in 1753, during the Age of Enlightenment. Through this captivating text, he tends to define the notion of beauty in painting and states that it is linked, per se, to the use of the serpentine lines in pictorial compositions...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This fresh and engaging perspective of William Hogarth (1697-1764) reveals him as a figure who reinvented the very idea of what it is to be an artist. Hogarth was the first artist to make his living as a humorist, brilliantly inventing a means of reproducing a wit for wide public consumption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The journal of a teenage boy aboard a whaling vessel, relating his winter in Siberia and numerous other adventures

Product Description: Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free...read more

Product Description: The Works of William Hogarth In a Series of 150 Steel Engravings by the First Artists With Descriptions and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by the Rev. John Trusler, to Which are Added Anecdotes by the Author and His Works.

A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, Before and After, and Marriage a la Mode are among the prints presented with descriptive notes and an introductory discussion of Hogarth's style