hogarthian

Updated: June 25, 2025

Gravely saluting the maiden, who was but partly false, he passed on to an apartment-house and to Dunwoodie's door, which was opened by Dunwoodie himself. In slippers and a tattered gown, he was Hogarthian. "I thought it a messenger!" he bitterly exclaimed. Jones smiled at him. "When a man of your eminence is not wrong, he is invariably right. I am a messenger."

Edgar Saltus - The Paliser case

Of course, Northcote despised Hogarth. Abuse of that painter seemed to be one of the duties of the British historical artist of that day. Yet he paid him homage; he painted a series of pictures, Hogarthian in subject, and proved to the satisfaction of everybody, one would think, the absolute superiority of Hogarth. Mr. Northcote's moral subjects, illustrative of vice and virtue, in the progress of two young women, are not to be mentioned in the same breath with the 'Mariage

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies