Hogarth - ACE071.3

Row of postcard reproductions of Hogarth paintings (landscapes, family groups, portraits, self-portrait, etc.). Customers in Tate Gallery shop. David Garrick as Richard III (1745), which earned Hogarth £200, the highest sum ever paid for a portrait. Life class at art school. Hogarth’s VO describing his work on the portrait of Captain Thomas Coram (1740). The portrait in the Thomas Coram Foundation. Other portraits, Lavinia Fenton, Duchess of Bolton (c.1740-1750), one of The Graham Children (1742), Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury (1744-1747), Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants (c.1750-1755). A plate of various profiles. Some of a series of caricature sketches of women’s heads. VO continues to talk about money, etc. Contemporary family group sitting in front of set of engravings. Gallery visitors looking at the Marriage à la Mode series (1743), The Death of the Earl and The Visit to the Quack Doctor. The Fellow ’Prentices at their Looms from the Industry and Idleness series (1747). The Idle ’Prentice Turn’d Away and Sent to Sea,The Industrious ’Prentice Out of His Time & Married to His Master’s Daughter, The Idle ’Prentice Home from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute, The Industrious ’Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought Before Him…, The Idle ’Prentice Executed at Tyburn. Print seller’s in London. Gin Lane and Beer Street (1751). Commentary says that Hogarth was promoting beer as an invigorating brink against the destructive gin. The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751) showing what happens to people who pursue a course of cruelty first to animals and then to human beings.