George Hogarth 1831 Hogarth was editor of a pro-Tory newspaper the Western Luminary, then in 1832 moved to Halifax becoming the first editor of the Halifax Guardian. In 1834, he became a music critic for "The Morning Chronicle" newspaper in London, and in 1835 he became editor-in-chief of "The Evening Chronicle", a post he held for twenty years. From 1846–1866 he worked as a music critic for "The Daily News", a paper which was founded by the novelist Charles Dickens. He had previously met Dickens in 1834 while they were both working for the "Morning Chronicle". In 1836 Dickens married Hogarth's eldest
The Bench (Hogarth) Vinci – with his version of some Raphael characters (from the Cartoons) and a hundred of his own character profiles. After Hogarth's death the subscription ticket was reproduced as print in its own right, minus the subscription details for "Marriage a-la-mode", and came to be known as "Characters and Caricaturas" (from the inscription Hogarth had added at the foot of the original). Hogarth intended to formally address the point with "The Bench" by creating a print for sale that showed characters, caricatures and "outré". Hogarth dismissed "outré" as a subset of caricature, but considered caricature to be as far below