Talk: 7 – 8.30pm

Rakes and Harlots. Gin Lane and Beer Street. Elections, prisons, madhouses, brothels. What the Romantics saw in William Hogarth was not merely an artist who could raise a smile, but a Shakespearean genius who captured the true spirit of eighteenth-century London. UCL’s Professor Gregory Dart explores the greatest works of this very English genius.

£7, booking recommended