Private Eye editor and long-time Have I Got News For You participant Ian Hislop pays tribute to a much earlier satirist on Radio 4′s Great Lives, the narrative illustrator William Hogarth, an artist whose work – especially some of this themed, sequential collections – are often held to be precursors to the modern comic book. The show goes out this afternoon on BBC Radio 4 at 4.30pm and should be available via Listen Again for a week.
(one of the paintings from A Rake’s Progress, a series of narrative paintings – later turned into engraved prints – depicting a young society man’s entry into vice and descent into penury and madness, part of eight paintings dating from 1732 to 1733 by Hogarth)
March 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
he was my great great great grandfather. :)