William Hogarth artwork from the series Four Times of the Day completed in 1736 and 1738 - Evening
Unlike the other scenes in The Four Times of Day, this composition includes a wide-open sky and rolling hills. The glorious sunset suggests a summer evening. The location is Islington, then at the northern edge of London. In the later seventeenth century the area had established itself as a popular retreat from the city. The stone entrance of Sadler’s Wells Theatre can be seen on the right. By the 1730s, the theatre was satirised for having a down-market clientele consisting of tradesmen and their overbearing, snobbish wives. The focus of Hogarth’s composition is a dyer and his family strolling wearily across a footbridge by the New River TATE
Size: 2683px × 3261px
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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