The Pool of Bethesda.

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Article ID DKH0821

Title

The Pool of Bethesda.

Description

Decorative representation on a biblical scene.

Year

c. 1772

Artist

Hogarth (1697-1764)

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual,mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words.

Place of Publication London
Dimensions (cm)47 x 54 cm
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringblack/white
TechniqueCopper print

Reproduction:

135.00 €

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