Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, from pictures, drawings, and scarce prints
A late eighteenth-century London publication by Samuel Ireland, printed by R. Faulder in 1794, collecting engraved copies of William Hogarth's pictures, drawings and scarce prints for collectors of Hogarth. The engravings are black and white line work showing theatre bills, tavern scenes, street crowds and mock-heroic oval vignettes, with dense hatching and crowded compositions that suggest period crowd staging and caricature poses a designer could study for historical narrative layouts.
