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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jonathan Jones

Playful at work: William Hogarth's The Shrimp Girl

Hogarth - The Shrimp Girl
A street seller looks jaunty while balancing a basket of fruit on her head in one of William Hogarth's most beautiful paintings, which dates from about 1740-1745. Hogarth is usually thought of as a satirist, but here he brings the colours and energy of 18th-century London to life in a tour de force of sensual painting. Hogarth is the greatest British exemplar of the early 18th century style known as rococo, when the grandiloquence of baroque art became perfumed and frilly and playful
Illustration: Photograph: The National Gallery
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