Clare Brant ‘Subjects I consider’d as Writers do’ – Hogarth There’s a well known connection between Hogarth and the writer John Gay, in terms of illustrations to Gay’s highly successful play The Beggar’s Opera. Rather less well known are the connections between Hogarth and Gay’s poem Trivia, published in 1716, about the art of walking the streets of London. Hogarth didn’t illustrate this, there’s no evidence he read it, and I don’t claim that the poem is an influence. Rather, I think the relationship between Gay’s poem and some of Hogarth’s work is worth exploring, and for two reasons. The…