[00:01.29]Painter William Hogarth rejected artifice to create a new picture of London.
[00:10.05]In a series of paintings from 1736 entitled Four Times Of The Day,
[00:15.53]Hogarth paints London as a divided city, where high society rubbed shoulders with London's chaotic grimy truths.
[00:26.83]It begins on a freezing morning in Covent Garden.
[00:33.90]An affluent lady makes her way to church past drunken revellers staggering home from the night before.
[00:42.18]She is oblivious to the huddle of beggars and whores warming themselves by the fire.
[00:52.91]At noon, the notorious slum district of St Giles is a divided world.
[01:01.10]On the left, a group of fashionable Huguenot immigrants pour out of the French church.
[01:08.84]On the other side of the street are a group of well fed but slovenly English peasants.
[01:15.14]The only thing that connects these two worlds is a dead cat that lies across the kerb.
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