The analysis of beauty: Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. By William Hogarth.

Title

The analysis of beauty: Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. By William Hogarth.

Author

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.

Publication

London :: printed by J. Reeves for the author, and sold by him at his house in Leicester-Fields,

1753.

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Contents

• illustration
• title page
• PREFACE.
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• CONTENTS.
• ERRATA.
• INTRODUCTION.
• THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY.
  • CHAPTER I. Of FITNESS.
  • CHAP. II. Of VARIETY.
  • CHAP. III. Of UNIFORMITY, REGULARITY, or SYMMETRY.
  • CHAP. IV. Of SIMPLICITY, or DISTINCTNESS.
  • CHAP. V. Of INTRICACY.
  • CHAP. VI. Of QUANTITY.
  • CHAP. VII. Of LINES.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of what sort of PARTS, and how PLEASING FORMS are composed.
  • CHAP. IX. Of COMPOSITION with the WAVING-LINE.
  • CHAP. X. Of COMPOSITIONS with the SERPENTINE-LINE.
  • CHAP. XI. Of PROPORTION.
  • CHAP. XII. Of LIGHT and SHADE, and the manner in which objects are explained to the eye by them.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of COMPOSITION with regard to LIGHT, SHADE and COLOURS.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of COLOURING.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the FACE.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of ATTITUDE.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of ACTION.
• Prints Publish'd by W. HOGARTH, and are to be had at his House in Leicester Fields.
• illustration
• FIGURES referr'd to in the BOOK.