Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral ...

In December 1750, William Hogarth issued a print called The March to Finchley. Set in 1745, the engraving shows government soldiers marching out of London to counter the Jacobite rising led by ...