William Hogarth - San Diego, CA - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

This is one of several similar memorials located outside the rare books room on the 9th floor at the San Diego Central Library.

The bronze piece depicts a library catalog card and reads:

"Hogarth, Willaim
Wang Coll.
Sixteen etchings principally con-
nested with Hogarth's Analysis of the
Line of Beauty, and illustrative of the
times and political characters during
Lord Bute's administration.
Several of these interesting plates
have never before been printed.
(Leicesterfields, Mary Darley, 1762)
1 vol. illus.
(over)"

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"William Hogarth FRSA (... 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian"...

Writing

Hogarth wrote and published his ideas of artistic design in his book The Analysis of Beauty (1753). In it, he professes to define the principles of beauty and grace which he, a real child of Rococo, saw realized in serpentine lines (the Line of Beauty). By some of Hogarth's adherents, the book was praised as a fine deliverance upon aesthetics; by his enemies and rivals, its obscurities and minor errors were made the subject of endless ridicule and caricature."

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