Hogarth's friend, the magistrate Henry Fielding, may have enlisted Hogarth to help with propaganda for a Gin Act: Beer Street and Gin Lane were issued shortly after his work An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings and addressed the same issues.

Freemasonry was a theme in some of Hogarth's work, most notably ' Night ', the fourth in the quartet of paintings ( later released as engravings ) collectively entitled the Four Times of the Day.

He took art classes at Burne Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School, there befriending future cartoonists Wally Wood and Roy Krenkel, who introduced him to the work of illustrators who had influenced adventure strips.

The furnishing includes Shipway's replica pieces and the new exhibition presents the House as a home, as well as celebrating Hogarth's life and work.

Independent shops were risky in the 1740s because no strict copyright laws, other than the Engraving Copyright Act of 1734 ( known as " Hogarth's Act "), had yet been instituted.

Hogarth's works were the delight and study of his early years.

His Epistle to William Hogarth ( 1763 ) was in answer to the caricature of Wilkes made during the trial, in it Hogarth's vanity and envy were attacked in an invective which Garrick quoted as shocking and barbarous.

William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, for in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.

When highly potent, inexpensive distilled spirits were introduced, matters worsened, and authors and artists protested the innovation of gin ( see, e. g. William Hogarth's Gin Lane ).

The earliest pictorial representation of Tyers ' Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, is the " Vauxhall fan " ( 1736 ), an etching printed in blue designed to be pasted to a fan ; it shows the earliest groups of pavilions, in a sober classical taste, but the interiors of the supper boxes were painted by members of Hogarth's St. Martin's Lane Academy, prominent among them Francis Hayman.

Hayman provided most of the subjects, which were rapidly executed by students and assistants ; Hubert Gravelot provided designs for two others, and Hogarth's designs were pressed into service in hastily dashed-off copies that filled the back of every box.

Hogarth's influence lives on today as artists continue to draw inspiration from the artist.

For example, Gavin Gordon's 1935 ballet The Rake's Progress, to choreography by Ninette de Valois, was based directly on Hogarth's series of paintings of that title.

Hogarth's engravings also inspired the BBC radio play " The Midnight House " by Jonathan Hall, based on the M. R. James ghost story " The Mezzotint " and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

* Location of Hogarth's grave on Google Maps

Ink copies made by him of figures from William Hogarth's plates led to his being employed by Charles Knight on several of his illustrated publications.

* In Jane R. Goodall's 2004 mystery novel The Walker ( Hodder Headline ISBN 0-7336-1897-9 ), ancient secrets pertaining to the creation of the alchemical homunculus are central to a plot involving murders based on Hogarth's prints and set in " Swinging London ".

* John Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice containing William Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.

Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings, 1966 ( trans.

His friend, J. T. Smith, related that plates of Hogarth's Industry and Idleness hung in the schoolroom ; once a month Adams read a lecture on these examples and then rewarded the industrious boys and caned the idle.

I should think myself honored by the opinion of any gentleman on this point ; but until I shall by better informed, shall conclude this general proportion of two and one to be the most pictoresque medium in all cases of breaking or otherwise qualifying straight lines and masses and groupes, as Hogarth's line is agreed to be the most beautiful, ( or, in other words, the most pictoresque ) medium of curves.

Gregory, who has been regularly involved in Steve Hogarth's h-Band, has also contributed to works by Porcupine Tree, including string arrangements on their sixth album, Lightbulb Sun, and for Dublin group Pugwash.

He provided a collection of Hogarth's works, commissioned replica furniture based on pieces in Hogarth prints and even took the photographs for the first guide book himself.

William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress displays in graphical form the downwardly spiralling fortunes of a wealthy but spendthrift son and heir who loses his money, and who as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bedlam.

* March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain ( d. 1737 ); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress

Hogarth's second album with the band, Holidays In Eden, was the first he wrote in partnership with the band, and includes the song " Dry Land " which Hogarth had written and recorded in a previous project with the band How We Live.

" and was immortalised in a detail of Plate II of William Hogarth's " A Rake's Progress " ( she may also appear in Plate IV of his series " Marriage à la mode " of 1745 ).

He was sometimes called the " Scottish Hogarth ", although he lacked Hogarth's satirical qualities.

Headed Tail Piece, it was intended as the tailpiece for a bound edition of Hogarth's engravings.

Hogarth's print was not the only image that ridiculed the affair — George Vertue published The Surrey-Wonder, and The Doctors in Labour, or a New Wim-Wam in Guildford ( 12 plates ), a broadsheet published in 1727 which satirises St. André, was also popular at the time.

The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam.

Probably the most prestigious comic version, however, was illustrator and former Tarzan comic strip artist Burne Hogarth's 1972 adaptation of the first half of the book into his showcase graphic novel Tarzan of the Apes.

In the 18th century, music was considered to be so far outside the realm of aesthetic theory ( then conceived of in visual terms ) that music was barely mentioned in William Hogarth's treatise, The Analysis of Beauty.

The church also appears to be that in William Hogarth's engraving of Southwark Fair made in 1733, a year before it was demolished.

The tree in front is a mulberry which was present in Hogarth's time, and has some local fame.

Alfred Dawson, whose family home at The Cedars adjoined Hogarth's and whose printing works was nearby, rescued the House in 1890 and restored it.

Hogarth's House in Chiswick, west London, is now a museum ; it abuts one of London's best known road junctions – the Hogarth Roundabout.

Hogarth's engraving Gin Lane is a well known image of the gin craze.

Notable Hogarth engravings in the 1740s includeThe Enraged Musician ( 1741 ), the six prints of Marriage à-la-mode ( 1745 ; executed by French artists under Hogarth's inspection ), and The Stage Coach or The Country Inn Yard ( 1747 ).

The spread of Hogarth's prints throughout Europe, together with the depiction of popular scenes from his prints in faked Hogarth prints, influenced Continental book illustration through the 18th and early 19th century, especially in Germany and France.

In 1764, William Hogarth published his last engraving, The Bathos, or the Manner of Sinking in Sublime Paintings inscribed to Dealers in Dark Pictures, depicting Father Time lying exhausted in a scene of destruction, parodying the fashion at that time for " sublime " works of art, and satirising criticisms made of Hogarth's own works.

William Hogarth | Hogarth's Cunicularii, or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation ( 1726 ).

William Hogarth | William Hogarth's 1763 cartoon targeting Churchill

For his friend William Hogarth he even carved a portrait of Hogarth's dog " Trump ".

In the mid-1940s Williamson continued to pursue his interest in cartooning and began to take art classes with Tarzan cartoonist Burne Hogarth, and later at Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School.

Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick.

Following this, In 1947, Ayers studied under Burne Hogarth in the first class of Hogarth's new institution, New York City's Cartoonists and Illustrators School ( renamed the School of Visual Arts 1956 ).