Tailpiece, or The Bathos etching with engraving - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Tailpiece, or The Bathos etching with engraving - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Summary: {{Template}} [[Tailpiece, or The Bathos etching with engraving]], 1764, on laid paper. Plate 320 x 335 mm., Sheet 402 x 505 mm. [[Hogarth]]’s final drawing is known as “The Bathos” or “Finis.” This word “bathos” signifies the depths, or the bottom; also it is applied to the process of sinking from the sublime to the ridiculous. Hogarth’s pencil shows us a devastated and desiccated world in which all things have come to an end. In the s…