THIRD REVISED EDITION

Compiled and with a commentary by

RONALD PAULSON

NOW REISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK

£60.00p paperback edition

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HOGARTH'S GRAPHIC WORKS, a catalogue raisonné of all the engravings known to have been made or supervised by William Hogarth (1697-1764), was last issued in hardback by The Print Room in 1989. It incorporated nearly twenty years of further research by Professor Ronald Paulson and much hitherto unpublished information, since the second edition was published by the Yale University Press in 1970. It retailed for £150.00p and is now unavailable. 

The Introduction to HOGARTH'S GRAPHIC WORKS includes details of secondary engravers working under Hogarth's supervision, the publishing history of the copperplates and folios, the major collections of engravings, a bibliography of Catalogues and Commentaries, and a chronology of Hogarth's life. The detailed, descriptive Catalogue is arranged in chronological sequence of the engravings. Each entry includes paragraphs on the initial painting or drawing, historical context, dating, sources and the successive states or alterations which the artist made to his engravings throughout his life. Also included are Prints after Hogarth's Design and a discussion of questionable attributions. Each work is illustrated and their are comprehensive indexes. 

Hogarth was an astute observer of his times. His engravings, together with Professor Paulson's explanation of the social and political conditions which inspired them, make this book, now reissued in paperback for the first time, indispensable to every student, collector and historian with an interest in the eighteenth century.