Friday 8 January 2021

Huggins after Hogarth

 



Another post in an occasional series of busts illustrated in other media.

an Engraved Portrait of William Huggins (1696 - 1761, 

The translator of Ariosto

1760.

After William Hogarth.

Thomas Major (1720 - 99).



Sheet: 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (8.6 x 8.6 cm).

Image courtesey Metropolitan Museum, New York.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/414599


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William Huggins

William Hogarth


Houghton Library

Harvard

ttp://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092850700203941/catalog



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John Huggins father of William Huggins

evidently not a very nice man!

see  Hogarth Paulson pub.1992

Warden of the Fleet Prison

William Hogarth

before 1745

Oil on Canvas 

47 x 41 cms.