William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress iii: 'The Orgy'

Boris Johnson, Tory MP and editor of the Spectator, stays in character and nominates William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress iii: ‘The Orgy’ as the greatest picture in Britain.

Listen to his explanation here [RealMedia]

For those of you who don’t know who Boris Johnson is, I set up a crash course about him last year.

See the other nominated pictures here. I like the Ucello a lot, for its attempt at perspective when that was still something new.