How Is Hogarth Portrayed In A Harlot's Progress

In 1731 Hogarth created the first of his modern moral works: A Harlot’s Progress. This follows the story of a young country girl, turned into a prostitute. It is a discriminating portrayal of the fatal nature of human vanity and blindness, however innocuous, in the face of ruthless economic and sexual forces. These paintings also show how climbing up the class system at a rapid pace will destroy human beings, and everyone surrounding them. Another famous painting which put William Hogarth on everyone radar was A Rake’s Progress. This tells the story of the fictional Tom Rakewell in a series of eight paintings. Tom Ingrates a fortune from his father but then follows down a path only to lead himself to destruction. Another famous series painting go his was Marriage-a-la-mode, another painting dedicated to the downfall of a wealthy family. These series of

He has British pride and wants his characters in the painting portraying Brits to be civilized, but how I feel these characters are being portrayed is not as the most civilized. We see in many of his works, people at the end dead and many of them with syphilis. I get the idea that he thinks the upper class are dirty people with loads of money. Between 1740 and 1745 William Hogarth focused more on portraits and received commissions from the elite of London society. Hogarth painted Captain Thomas Coram who was a philanthropist. Another one of his famous pictures is a self portrait which also features his pug Trump. What is fascinating about this portrait is that Hogarth and his dog, show resemblance in the face. Another one of his famous portraits is The Shrimp Girl which resembles the prints of hawkers and traders popular during Hogarth’s Time His paintings has a lightness of the Rococo influence despite his granted views of the