Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

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This print is a witty play on the comic inconqruity between the dignity, grandeur and mythic dimensions of the role, costumes and symbols of classical culture and the earthy, vexed and common nature of the real lives of the players … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

Date:

C1822

(1820)

Artist:

William Hogarth (1697 - 1794)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

540mm

x 425mm

Paper Size:

645mm

x 495mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1820

Description:

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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