Engravings by Hogarth

This one is a giant Dover paperback with glorious, near actual-sized reproductions of most of William Hogarth’s prints. But, because I am a glutton for punishment, I read all the accompanying text. The introduction was a solid history of the artist, but all the plate blurbs are just literal descriptions of what we are already looking at. It’s like one of those DVD commentaries that Arnold Schwarzenegger would record.