Mary Hogarth beautiful and light-hearted". When Robert Story visited the Hogarth household in 1836, he described Hogarth as "the fairest flower of spring". Dickens showed particular affection to Hogarth, and described her as "a close friend, an exceptional sister, a companion at home." It is believed that Hogarth was the first person to read "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist", as Dickens valued Hogarth's input and feedback more than his wife's. In the early hours of 7 May 1837, after Hogarth had returned from a showing of "Is She His Wife?" at the St James's Theatre with the Dickens couple, she collapsed
The Bench (Hogarth) death. Hogarth had often been accused of being a caricaturist, but regarded this as a slur on his work. In his book on art, "The Analysis of Beauty", Hogarth claimed that the critics had branded all his women as harlots and all his men as caricatures. He complained: He had made an early attempt to address what he perceived as a mistake on the part of his critics with the subscription ticket for his 1743 series "Marriage à-la-mode", on which he contrasted a number of his reproductions of classical caricatures – from Annibale Carracci, Pier Leone Ghezzi and Leonardo da