A Smile at My Own Temerity
John Barrell: William Hogarth, 16 February 2017
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
by Elizabeth Einberg.
Yale, 432 pp., £95, November 2016,978 0 300 22174 9 Show More
by Elizabeth Einberg.
Yale, 432 pp., £95, November 2016,
“... of the populace, must remember, that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.’ Hurrah! As Elizabeth Einberg puts it, The March of the Guards to Finchley is ‘a work that aims to be both “serious and comic” in the fullest Hogarthian sense’. However reprehensible the behaviour of the grenadiers, the painting permits us to enjoy their ... ”
