Details of Hogarth paintings at London’s Soane Museum tell an intimate story of dress and decadence
By following the up-and-downward spiral from swashbuckling glamour to a broken figure in torn clothes – the exhibition ‘Hogarth: Place and Progress’ creates an arresting story. And ‘arrest’ is the fate of the pitiful figure that artist William Hogarth created in ‘The Rake’s Progress’. The rake is caught penniless, drunk and on the edge of madness at the end of a riveting series of drawings on display at Sir John Soane’s Museum in central London.
The genius in all this was Sir John Soane , who followed Hogarth’s work and included it in his artistic house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Still today, the Soane Museum has a fascinating collection of art, sculpture, and an imaginative collection of gifts that seem both educational and creative. A single face from a Hogarth drawing, pulled out of context, as if from the city crowds, is just one of the ideas that make the museum shop artistic and intriguing.
For a fashion editor, the details of dress in that period are fascinating, not just in their execution but in the not-so-subtle messages that are still evident today. A visit to the museum offers a history lesson and a chance to buy a holiday gift with a tale attached.
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