Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Characters and Caricaturas' NPG D21371

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Hogarth

Hogarth began painting in 1727, soon producing life-size portraits and 'comic histories' such as The Rake's Progress and Marriage à-la-mode. An abrasive social commentator, he was appointed Sergeant Painter to George II in 1757. At a time when foreign artists flocked to London, Hogarth was concerned with the status of native artists, recommending that they seek inspiration from the infinite variety of contemporary human existence and advocating for the Englishness of English art. He wrote The Analysis of Beauty in 1753, which argued that... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.