Hogarth on High Life: The Marriage a la Mode Series from Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg's Commentaries

by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Book Overview

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's rich, extensive commentaries on Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode paintings, which satirized 18th-century marriages of convenience, brilliantly translated and with much additional material

Marriage a la Mode is the most famous of William Hogarth's 'progresses' or series paintings, the story of a marriage de convenance and its unhappy consequences in fashionable 18th-century London. Contemporaries relished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843680270
• ISBN13: 9781843680277
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Pallas Athene
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 11.1"