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William Hogarth  (1697–1764)  wikidata:Q171344 s:en:Author:William Hogarth q:en:William Hogarth
 
William Hogarth
Description English-British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 10 November 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 25 October 1764
Location of birth/death London London
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London, Chiswick
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artist QS:P170,Q171344
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William Hogarth  (1697–1764)  wikidata:Q171344 s:en:Author:William Hogarth q:en:William Hogarth
 
William Hogarth
Description English-British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 10 November 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 25 October 1764
Location of birth/death London London
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London, Chiswick
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creator QS:P170,Q171344
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English: William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress, Plate 2.

COMMENT/DESCRIPTIONThe excessive fondness which the nobility discovered for (Farinelli, the castrato singer), the caresses they bestowed on, and the presents they made him, indicated little less than infatuation ; their bounty was prodigality, and their applause adoration. Mr. Hogarth, in his Rake’s Progress, has ridiculed this fully with great humour; in the second plate of that work he represents his rake at his levee in a circle, consisting of a bravo, a jockey, a dancing-master, a fencing-master, a gardener, and other dependents. In a corner of the room sits an opera composer at a harpsichord, with a long roll hanging from the back of his chair, in which is the following inscription : 'A list of the rich presents Signor Farinelli, the Italian singer, condescended to accept of the English nobility and gentry for one night's performance in the opera of "Artaxerxes".
A pair of diamond knee-buckles, presented by a diamond ring by
A bank-note enclosed in a rich gold case by
 A gold snuff-box chased with the story of Orpheus charming the brutes by T. Rakewell, Esq. l00£, 200£, 100£.

Description from The Westminster Magazine: or, The Pantheon of Taste, vol. 5 (1777), pp. 396-397
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source/Photographer Scanned from The genius of William Hogarth or Hogarth's Graphical Works
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