14September
Wednesday

Lecture Programme
Hogarth: Harlots, Rakes and Crashing China: Hogarth’s Pots – Lars Tharp
Time: Wednesday, 14 September 2022
10:45 am -
12:00 pm
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Mercure Preston Hotel, Samlesbury, Preston New Road, Preston PR5 0UL
A ‘cracking’ talk. It will fundamentally change your view of William Hogarth. Pots, crocks and chinaware tumble through Hogarth’s domestic dramas. His detailed paintings and prints are wittily infiltrated with recognizable ceramics – earthenwares, stonewares and ‘china’- in an age drunk on Luxury. Potters across continents compete with each other, fuelled by the ‘china mania’ […]