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Title: The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings
With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

Author: John Trusler

Contributor: John Hogarth
John Nichols

Engraver: William Hogarth

Release Date: September 4, 2007 [EBook #22500]

Language: English

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[Illustration: WILLIAM HOGARTH.]

THE
WORKS
OF
WILLIAM HOGARTH;

IN A
SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS:
WITH
DESCRIPTIONS,
AND
A COMMENT ON THEIR MORAL TENDENCY,

BY THE
REV. JOHN TRUSLER.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
ANECDOTES OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORKS,
BY J. HOGARTH AND J. NICHOLS.

London:
PUBLISHED BY JONES AND CO.
TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, (LATE LACKINGTON'S,) FINSBURY SQUARE.

1833.

C. BAYNES, PRINTER, 13 DUKE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

THE LIFE OF HOGARTH.

William Hogarth is said to have been the descendant of a family
originally from Kirby Thore, in Westmorland.

His grandfather was a plain yeoman, who possessed a small tenement in
the vale of Bampton, a village about fifteen miles north of Kendal, in
that county; and had three sons.

The eldest assisted his father in farming, and succeeded to his little
freehold.

The second settled in Troutbeck, a village eight miles north west of
Kendal, and was remarkable for his talent at provincial poetry.

Richard Hogarth, the third son, who was educated at St. Bees, and had
kept a school in the same county, appears to have been a man of some
learning. He came early to London, where he resumed his original
occupation of a schoolmaster, in Ship-court in the Old Bailey, and was
occasionally employed as a corrector of the press.

Mr. Richard Hogarth married in London; and our artist, and his sisters,
Mary and Anne, are believed to have been the only product of the