Jointly organised by the International Cultural Centre and the Print Room of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences Library, the exposition was another in a series of exhibitions devoted to presentation of the prints by the old masters. 

The aim of this project has been to exhibit the masterpieces remaining in the rich collection of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. The exhibition focused on the oeuvre of William Hogarth, one of the finest artists of the 18th century. 

Among others, it featured Hogarth’s famous morality series – “A Harlot’s Progress”, “Marriage à la Mode”, “The Rake’s Progress” – as well as works by other artists of the period such as Piranesi, Canaletto, Chodowiecki and Boucher.

A significant part of the exhibition comprised the prints of the English-based masters in which one could trace a development of this particular discipline of art in the discussed period. The exhibition boasting over a hundred works of art offered an overview of the 18th century prints, their modifications as well as prevailing style tendencies.

Previous exhibitions organised in collaboration with the Print Room of the PAU and PAN Library:

• Masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-Century Prints from the Collection of the Polish Academy of Sciences Library in Kraków

• Rembrandt, Rubens and Others. Masterpieces of 17th-Century Prints from the Print Room of the PAU at the Polish Academy of Sciences Library in Kraków