Satire on False Perspective [SEP] creator
Satire on False Perspective
Satire on False Perspective is the title of an engraving produced by William Hogarth in 1754 for his friend Joshua Kirby's pamphlet on linear perspective.
The intent of the work is clearly given by the subtitle:
Summary.
The work shows a scene that provides many deliberate examples of confused and misplaced perspective effects. Although the individual components of the scene seem self-consistent, the scene itself can be classed as an example of an impossible object.
Summary Partial list of "errors".
works included his ingenious "Satire on False Perspective" (1754); his satire on canvassing in his "Election" series (1755–1758; now in Sir John Soane's Museum); his ridicule of the English passion for cockfighting in "The Cockpit" (1759); his attack on Methodism in "Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism" (1762); his political anti-war satire in "The Times", plate I (1762); and his pessimistic view of all things in "Tailpiece, or