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Famous engraving of William Hogarth and his pug, Trump. Hogarth shows himself in a Montero cap, with his dog Trump, a pile of books, his graver, and his palette inscribed; ‘The Line of Beauty’. Trump was the best known of … Read Full Description
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Famous engraving of William Hogarth and his pug, Trump.
Hogarth shows himself in a Montero cap, with his dog Trump, a pile of books, his graver, and his palette inscribed; ‘The Line of Beauty’. Trump was the best known of Hogarth’s pugs who was succeeded by another pug named Crab.
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Paulson,R. Hogarths Graphic Works 1989. #181, ill.p. 364
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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