Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - and Rowlandson,but it reached the Cruickshanks and the elder Doyle. Somemay fancy that they note a reflexion of the satire of the Progresses in the rare moments of Leechs satire, and evenin artists of a still later date. But, however much he hasbeen excelled in some respects by the workers in black-and- Pictures, W//-/art ^^./,;/j^«.„//* j^/Qa^ yy^^^/ /^ His Positionas THE BATTLE OF THE PICTUEES
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - and Rowlandson,but it reached the Cruickshanks and the elder Doyle. Somemay fancy that they note a reflexion of the satire of the Progresses in the rare moments of Leechs satire, and evenin artists of a still later date. But, however much he hasbeen excelled in some respects by the workers in black-and- Pictures, W//-/art ^^./,;/j^«.„//* j^/Qa^ yy^^^/ /^ His Positionas THE BATTLE OF THE PICTUEES, BY WILLIAM HOGARTH. {From the Original Engraving.) white of the nineteenth centur}^ Englands greatest dramaticdraughtsman he must always be. Hogarths has been a healthy influence, too; for though, aswe have said, he Avas poorly equipped in feeling for beauty ofform, and he was far from being a great colourist, yet hisexecution was firm, his handlina: facile, and his colour soberand sometimes felicitous. But as his biographer has saidonce and for all, in a summing up which it would be wrong THE REGENERATION OF ART. 369 1784] to attenuate by any addition, neither by his achievements asan engraver, nor by his merits as a painter, does he retain liisunique position among Enghsh artists. It is as a pictorialchronicler of life and manners, as a satirist and humouristupon canvas, that he makes his chief claim upon skill in seizing upon the ridiculous and the fantastic wasonly equalled by hispower of rendering thetragic and the it was not
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