{"id":1132,"date":"2014-09-11T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2014-09-17T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:11:45","slug":"the-small-self-exhibition-20-septemer-2014-to-11-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"“Hogarth the Draughtsman” at the British Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I<\/a>Our Vice Chairman, Sheila O’Connell, has put together a small display of Hogarth\u2019s drawings in Room 90 as the British Museum’s contribution to the 250th anniversary of his death. It continues until December. This is a special opportunity to see how Hogarth worked from initial ideas to a finished print.<\/p>\n

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As Assistant Keeper of Prints & Drawings Sheila cares for the British Museum’s Hogarth works.\u00a0 She\u00a0 writes, ‘Only about 100 drawings by Hogarth survive and half of these are in the British Museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>Hogarth normally created his paintings and prints directly on to canvas or copper plate without detailed preliminary studies on paper. The drawings displayed were created for particular circumstances and show a little known aspect of his work.’ <\/p>\n

Here we show three items from the BM collection for comparison, two preliminary drawings for Plate 6 of Industry and Idleness<\/strong><\/em>, “The industrious ‘prentice out of his time, and married to his Master’s daughter”.<\/p>\n

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Our Vice Chairman, Sheila O’Connell, has put together a small display of Hogarth\u2019s drawings in Room 90 as the British Museum’s contribution to the 250th anniversary of his death. It continues until December. This is a special opportunity to see how Hogarth worked from initial ideas to a finished print. As Assistant Keeper of Prints […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hogarth-250th"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}