Stage Curtain Gallery

The Lottery, 1721.Artist: William Hogarth

The Lottery, 1721. A theatre stage upon which the allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a production. This was Hogarth's way of criticising the government for raising money by lottery. It is based on Raphael's paintings Dispute and School of Athens

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