New William Hogarth exhibition to feature artwork not seen for 300 years

The display focuses on the British artist and his reaction to the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.

Hogarth’s The Marching Of The Guards To Finchley is one of the works on display (The Foundling Museum/PA)

Paintings and engravings by one of Britain’s best-known artists are to be displayed in a new exhibition exploring their links with an infamous uprising.

Works by the renowned 18th-century artist, satirist and theorist William Hogarth will go on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery from Friday, bringing together more than 40 of his artworks and some by his contemporaries.

The new exhibition – Hogarth’s Britons: Succession, Patriotism, And The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion – has been made possible thanks to partnerships between Derby Museums and the National Portrait Gallery, the National Galleries of Scotland and several others, public donations and £20,000 of fundraising.