Artwork

Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum

Artist: William Hogarth
Date: 1725/1726
Collection: National Gallery of Art

English painter and engraver whose satirical narrative series exposed the moral failings of Georgian society with biting wit and extraordinary pictorial invention.

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