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| Title |
The Lottery |
| Artist |
William Hogarth |
| Date |
1721 (reprinted c. 1822) |
| Medium |
Etching and Engraving |
| Location |
The Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections,
Northwestern University |
The Lottery is Hogarth's companion piece to The South Sea
Scheme. Here he criticizes the government for raising money
by lottery. The curtains create the effect of a stage upon
which allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a dumb-show.
Lottery is based on Raphael's Dispute and School of Athens,
yet the characters are far from heroic. The satirical humor
of this print depends largely upon its mock-heroic inversion
of High Renaissance prototypes.
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