William Hogarth Prints – The Stagecoach or Country Inn Yard

William Hogarth Prints – The Stagecoach or Country Inn Yard

Hogarth’s satire showing the courtyard of the galleried Old Angle (Angel) Inn at election time.

In the foreground a coach is preparing to depart, and an enormously fat old woman is being pushed by the guard through the coach door. A potbellied tradesman haggles with the conductor about his ticket, and an election riot is going on in the background. Paulson 167 III/IV.

(Before the restoration of the flag in the background inscribed No Old Baby. The cry used by the political opponents of the Tory and Jacobite sympathiser John Child Tylney, later Earl Tylney, when he became candidate for Essex.

William Hogarth

William Hogarth, (born November 10, 1697, London, England—died October 26, 1764, London).  The first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad, best known for his MORAL and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733).

His attempts to build a reputation as a history painter and portraitist, however, met with financial disappointment. His aesthetic theories had more influence in Romantic literature than in painting.

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