WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)
Boys Peeping at Nature.
1730RCIN 811507
Hogarth launched a subscription for A Harlot’s Progress in 1730. Subscribers, who registered to receive copies of the finished print in return for a down payment, were issued with a ticket showing a boy and a satyr lifting the skirt of a statue to peek underneath. The notion that art and satire can reveal truth may reflect the moral message of the Harlot’s Progress which examined the consequences of a series of actions and choices. This ticket is made out to George Lambert, a landscape painter.
In the Royal Collection by 1845
Cat. 85