223 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Previous edition published: 1981.
Contents:
The fear of Grub Street -- Beginnings as a painter -- Modern moral subjects: a reading of the two Progresses -- The world of the Progresses -- The 1730s: satire and history -- The connoisseurs and comic history painting -- Portrait painting -- Approaches to the public -- Hogarth's Africans -- The theory and practice of art -- Bathos.