William Hogarth

In England, William Hogarth was the "most important making of satirical prints in the first half the the 18th Century." Like most of the satire of his time, his prints were often social commentary. The image above is an engraving of John Wilkes, a radical, journalist, and politician that Hogarth obviously didn't care for. Very rarely did he apply his satire to politics. The bottom image is an example of Hogarth's more political cartoons. It pertains to the South Sea Bubble scandal (which to sum it up quickly involved over-speculation on trade to cause people to loose a lot of money.)