William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764), The Sleeping Congregation, 1736, etching, The Miscellaneous Works of Art Purchase Fund, 1958

The Art and Wit of Caricature: The English Tradition

Saturday, June 28, 2008—Sunday, December 7, 2008
Gallery 315
Free Exhibition

Forty caricature prints and drawings from the MIA’s permanent collection present social satire that both bristles and entertains. This show examines the comic art form in eighteenth-century England, in the work of some of the period’s most celebrated caricaturists—William Hogarth (1697-1764), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), and James Gillray (1756-1815).