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What does William Hogarth depict in Tailpiece or The Bathos?

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The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London. — William Hogarth The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.

In his final engraving, sardonically titled Tailpiece, or The Bathos, William Hogarth sombrely depicted the demise of his own artistic world.1