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| | Literary Encyclopedia: William Hogarth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | Hogarth was the first, great, visual artist born and bred in England. |
 | | Hogarth acknowledges this literary dimension in his famous self-portrait of 1745, a painting within a painting, in which his oval-framed self-portrait rests on three bound volumes, marked Shakespeare, Milton and Swift, indicating his desire to be thought of as drawing on, and sharing in, the English literary traditions of the theatre, epic and satire. |
 | | William Hogarth was born in Bartholomew Court, next to Smithfield, close to the heart of the City of London, on 10 November 1697, the son of Richard Hogarth, a struggling schoolteacher and writer of Latin textbooks. |
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