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This Hogarthian image may be a better predictor of what lies ahead than 10,000 words of analysis.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018

My audience, by the way, was especially tickled by the satirical portrait of the show’s one major British character, King George III, embodied with Hogarthian nastiness by a divinely petulant Michael Jibson.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018

A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

Specialising in low-life morality tales and conjuring, with Hogarthian relish, a socially realistic world, his best work is more complete and less cloyingly sentimental than the vast majority of his better-known American counterparts.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

Book I., of his "Tale of Two Cities," Dickens has sketched Child's bank with quite an Hogarthian force and colour.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter