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The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 2

Artist/Maker (English, 1697–1764)
Date1753
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsImage: 16 15/16 × 21 in. (43.1 × 53.4 cm)
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (48 × 63.2 cm)
Credit LineAnnie A. Wager Bequest
PortfolioThe Analysis of Beauty
Object number1975.237
Status
Not on view
More Information
With this assembly of dancers, Hogarth demonstrates his theory about how the movement and shape of the human form affects our response. The elegant couple at the left represents the ideal of grace, both in movement and in shape. In the diagram at the upper left (fig. 71), they are represented as serpentine lines; the other dancers are rendered as less-than-ideal straight, angular, or rounded forms.
Exhibition History
'A more new way of proceeding': Representation and Narrative in the Art of William Hogarth
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 23, 1995 - May 29, 1995 )
Collections
  • European