People know 18th-century London more from Hogarth’s drawings than from the work of any novelist. Indeed, the titles of his best-known picture series — “A Rake’s Progress” and “Gin Lane” — are part of our language. They define the age: We know the dissolution of Robert Walpole’s day through Hogarth to a degree we don’t from Samuel Richardson.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez is assuming the role of our Hogarth. Further proof appears in this second collection of his drawings.
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