Hogarth

THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie''s Best Art Books of the Year ''Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature'' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times ''Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth''s life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man'' - Professor Linda Colley, author of The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen ''Full of richness, originality and considered humour, unafraid to shock with thrilling new insight ... terrific'' - Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A Stratford & Sky Arts ''The full technicolour panorama of Georgian life laid out in a huge and passionate book'' - Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and author of Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian CourtOn a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a ''peregrination'' that will take them through the gritty streets of Georgian London an