It’s hardly new for cartoons to cause immense offence. Never mind the deliberate savagery of William Hogarth or James Gillray in the 18 th and 19 th centuries.

Paintings and engravings by one of Britain’s best-known artists are to be displayed in a new exhibition exploring their links with an infamous uprising. Works by the renowned 18th-century artist, ...

Ronald Paulson, a renowned specialist in the artist William Hogarth and in 18th-century English art and culture, died Aug. 7 at his Baltimore home. The William D. and Robin Mayer Professor Emeritus in ...