![]() ![]() For the Victorians, such nationalism was a virtue. His Self-Portrait of 1745 shows his dogged features gazing out of an illusionistic painting within a painting, and resting on books by the (to Hogarth’s mind) pointedly English writers Shakespeare, Milton and Swift. ![]() It was an image Hogarth himself assiduously propagated. The story typifies the popular image of Hogarth, as a bluff, scrappy and above all insular artist-engraver.
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