
William HogarthInglaterra, 1697–1764Será possível contemplá-la?
Amesterdão, Países Baixos
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Tekst in het Engels in de ondermarge. De personificatie van De Tijd ligt tegen het basement van een zuil bij de ruïnes van een kroeg en een kerk, en is omringd door een testament, gebroken objecten met Britse referenties en vanitas symbolen.
Museu Estatal de Amesterdão
1712–1764 · Local de trabalho
London
25 – 26 October 1764
His last day in Leicester Fields
On 25 October 1764 Hogarth, weak but cheerful, was taken from his villa in Chiswick to his home in Leicester Fields; he was still working, retouching “The Bench”. On 26 October he received a letter from Benjamin Franklin and drafted a reply; he boasted of eating a pound of beefsteaks for dinner, and that night, after suddenly vomiting, died in the arms of his servant Mary Lewis; John Nichols named an aneurysm as the cause, Horace Walpole “a dropsy of his breast”.
26 de outubro de 1764
Died