Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
William Hogarth
Born: November 10, 1697
Died: October 26, 1764 (aged 66)
Bio: William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.
Known for:
- Beer Street and Gin Lane
- A Harlot's Progress (1732)
- The Shrimp Girl (1745)
- The Gate of Calais (1748)