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WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) was an English painter and engraver, humorist and satirist whose best-known works include several series of popular satiric engravings in which he ridiculed the viciousness and folly that he saw in the world around him.¹ Hogarth was born in London, England, on November 10, 1697. At an early age, he showed artistic talent and was apprenticed to a silver engraver in London. Hogarth's fame began in 1731 with a series of 6 pictures called A Harlot's Progress, the first of his "modern moral subjects" (a progress being a journey toward a goal). Other series followed, including A Rake's Progress (1735) and Marriage a la Mode (1745). Editions of these engravings sold well. Hogarth played a major role in legislation leading to the artists' copyright law, often referred to as the Hogarth Act; he delayed the publication of A Rake's Progress until its passage. Hogarth responded to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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