Showing posts with label Hogarth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hogarth. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The progress of beauty

Fielding's narrator, of the character of Mrs. Partridge, in Tom Jones (the reference is II.iii.78):
Whether she sat to my Friend Hogarth, or no, I will not determine; but she exactly resembled the young Woman who is pouring out her Mistress’s Tea in the third Picture of the Harlot’s Progress.
The whole series is here.