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Hogarth Restored. The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth
Thomas Cook (1744 – 1818), engraver
William Hogarth (1697 – 1764), copy after
London: John Stockdale, 1806
Engraving on paper
Gift of Alfred and Marie Louise Friendly
University Art Collection 2015.30.1.38
Hogarth’s book The Analysis of Beauty, first published in 1753, proposed six principles of visual beauty and theorized a serpentine “Line of Beauty,” seen here in Figure 49. Hogarth proposed #4 to be the most visually beautiful of the seven lines.