Word: hogarth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Low at his most biting is gentlemanly compared to his cartooning forebears. Hogarth set the pace for English caricaturists in the 18th Century, and his followers, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Cruikshanks et al., set the pace for the French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four...
...Their Excellencies the British and French Ambassadors, and numbering among its active officers Anglophile André Maurois. Frenchmen, who are still fond enough of Daumier and Grandville (TIME, Nov. 8) to use their drawings in modern advertisements, got plenty of fun out of their English predecessors and contemporaries, Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., represented by 391 sketches, engravings and lithographs. But this was only a foretaste of the grandeurs to come...
Until the end of May, visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found...
This week's first nighters entered through the columned porch of the old hotel, under the same overhanging iron-grilled balcony, to the transformed lobby. Off the horseshoe of boxes on the second level was a bar decorated with mural reproductions of Hogarth's "Rake's Progress." Rakes who sought anything stronger than soda pop were disappointed, for South Carolina does not permit the sale of alcoholic drinks in theatres...
...second talk November 16 was on "Hogarth, The Humanitarian Movement...