Moral comic narrative sequence by William Hogarth

1. William Hogarth
1697-1764

2. “Hogarth may be said to have created an
entirely new species of painting, which may
be termed the moral comic.” -- J. Nichols

3. “Hogarth composed comedies as much as Molière.”

4. The following umages show both paintings and prints of The Rake’s Progress

21. A Twentieth-Century Adaptation of The Rake’s Progress