The Works of William Hogarth presents the celebrated engravings of the great English satirist together with John Trusler’s descriptions and commentary on their moral meaning. Hogarth’s narrative series, such as A Rake’s Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode, dramatized the vices and follies of eighteenth-century London with biting wit and unflinching detail.
Trusler’s text explains the crowded incident of each plate and underscores the moral lessons Hogarth intended, making the prints legible to a wide readership. The volume is a classic guide to the work of the artist who effectively founded English pictorial satire. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.