Large Masquerade Ticket
1727 engraved admission ticket by William Hogarth satirizing London's masquerade craze
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Large Masquerade Ticket is a 1727 engraving by William Hogarth, designed as an admission ticket for a masquerade ball but used by the artist as an opportunity for satirical commentary.[1] Masquerade tickets were a popular minor genre in early 18th-century London, and Hogarth used the format, as he would later with prints like Masquerades and Operas, to criticize the era's fashionable entertainments as morally corrupting.
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- ↑ "William Hogarth."CartoonWiki.Retrieved 2026-10-02.