I, Hogarth

William Hogarth was London's artist par excellence, and his work-especially his satirical series of "modern moral subjects"-supplies the most enduring vision of the ebullience, enjoyments, and social iniquities of the eighteenth century.

And in I, Hogarth, he tells a ripping good yarn.

From a childhood spent in a debtor's prison to his death in the arms of his wife, Hogarth recounts the incredible story of how he maneuvered his way into the household of prominent artist Sir James Thornhill, and from there to become one of England's best portrait painters.