Works on Paper Highlights Talk: Hogarth’s London

Join Curatorial Assistant Rebecca Szantyr for a discussion exploring the business of making pictures in eighteenth-century England.  This talk considers the printing practice of William Hogarth (1697–1764) as well as the subsequent generation of engravers he inspired.

Visit the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark’s collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department. Offered Wednesdays from 1–1:30 pm in July and August.

Topics and presenters include:

July 13: Sculpture in Two Dimensions with Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
July 20: Renaissance Afterlives with Curatorial Intern Yuefeng Wu
July 27: Tissot’s Etchings of Summer with Curatorial Research Associate Alexis Goodin
August 3: Hogarth’s London with Curatorial Assistant Rebecca Szantyr
August 10: Caricature in Callot and Goya with Curatorial Assistant Sophie Kerwin

Free and open to the public; capacity is limited to twenty visitors on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper is located next to the exhibition José Guadalupe Posada: Symbols, Skeletons, and Satire, in the Manton Research Center.

Image: William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness 1: The Fellow ‘Prentices at their Looms, 1747, Etching and engraving on paper. Gift of Professor Don Gifford, Williams College, 1969. The Clark Art Institute, 1969.24A