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  • The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
    In William Hogarth: Return to prints

    Industry and Idleness (1747) contains, in addition to its obvious moral message, a good deal of self-dramatization, depicting the virtuous apprentice made good in a hostile world. In these years Hogarth’s uncertainty and frustration expressed themselves in a number of unfinished paintings. In several spontaneous…

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