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