on for the artist far more than 244 ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND his pictures. Hogarths prints, however, owe this successrather to the subjects they portray than to their actualartistic merits. Hogarth, indeed, is an admirable draughts-man, but the technical execution of his plates never risesabove… … Fig. 112. William Hogarth : The Laughing Audience (detail). from the burin ; nowhere is there any attempt at artisticfinish ; the entire aim is to obtain the utmost expressive-ness with a minimum of labour. In the greater part ofhis work he probably relied on outside help, and famousprints, such as…
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