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Hogarth William
(1697—1764)

English painter, satirist, engraver, and art theorist, b. London. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a silver-plate engraver. He soon made engravings on copper for bookplates and illustrations—notably those for Butler’s Hudibras (1726). He studied drawing with Thornhill, whose daughter he married in 1729. Hogarth tried to earn a living with... More...

Sierra Leone, 1989, Plays of Shakespeare

USSR, 1957, Henry Fielding