Artist:
William Hogarth
This was Hogarth’s most successful popular engraving, earning the artist �12 a day for three or four weeks. It portrays Simon Fraser at an inn in St. Alban’s on his way to trial and execution for rallying the Highland clans … Read Full Description
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This was Hogarth’s most successful popular engraving, earning the artist �12 a day for three or four weeks. It portrays Simon Fraser at an inn in St. Alban’s on his way to trial and execution for rallying the Highland clans on behalf of the Pretender in 1754.
Artist:
William Hogarth (1697-1794)
Hogarth was born in London, the son of an unsuccessful schoolmaster and writer from Westmoreland. After apprenticeship to a goldsmith, he began to produce his own engraved designs from 1710. He later took up oil painting, starting with small portrait groups called conversation pieces. He went on to create a series of paintings satirising contemporary customs, but based on earlier Italian prints, of which the first was ‘The Harlot’s Progress’ (1731), and perhaps the most famous ‘The Rake’s Progress’. His engravings were so plagiarised that he lobbied for the Copyright Act of 1735 as protection for writers and artists.
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