Taste in High Life
May 1, 1798
Medium
Engraving and aquatint; second state
Dimensions
Plate: 15 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (38.7 x 46.7 cm) Sheet: 16 9/16 x 21 9/16 in. (42 x 54.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Accession Number
91.1.80
Tags
About the Artist
William Hogarth|Samuel Phillips · 1697–1764
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, and pictorial satirist who became the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Born into poverty in London, the son of a failed schoolmaster who was imprisoned for debt, Hogarth's early experiences with the harsh realities of 18th-century urban life profoundly shaped his artistic vision. After apprenticing with si...