Opening Reception: “Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique: William Hogarth’s Progress Prints"

Date

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

Time

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST

Location

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Host

Yale University

Details

Drawing from the rich William Hogarth collections of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library, “Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique” investigates the power and reverberating impact of the artist’s acclaimed “moral progress” prints. Hogarth’s contemporaries immediately recognized these works for their ability to both entertain and call out cruelty and injustice, and artists and publishers over the following