The Analysis of Beauty

Serpentine lines in a plate from The Analysis of Beauty
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The line of beauty denoted on Hogarth's 1751 Beer Street sign painter

The Analysis of Beauty is a book written by the 18th-century artist and writer William Hogarth, published in 1753, which describes Hogarth's theories of visual beauty and grace in a manner accessible to the common man of his day.