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William Hogarth

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Red chalk drawing of a chained bearded man before seated judges in a classical hall, with a guard, scribes and an eagle sculp

Paul Before Felix

c. 1751

Red chalk drawing of a child presented to a seated noblewoman beneath draped curtains, with classical architecture behind.

Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter

1751

Pen and ink sketch of a grotesque female head with an open mouth and curly hair, surrounded by loose flourishes.

Grotesque Female Head

Grotesque Male Head

Pen and ink drawing of a muscular man pressing down on a skeleton, which sprawls beneath him on the sheet.

George Taylor's Epitaph: George Taylor Breaking the Ribs of Death

1750

Pen and ink wash drawing of a seated man in a buttoned coat smoking a pipe beside a table with a glass and decanter.

Benjamin Read

1757

Sketch of a seated man in a tricorn hat beside a table with a wine bottle and glass, in brown wash.

Gabriel Hunt

Pencil and red chalk sketch of a street scene with boys tormenting a dog and rooster, a gibbet in the background, and onlooke

The First Stage of Cruelty

1750

Pencil sketch of an interior with a canopy bed and figures, with small studies in the lower right margin by William Hogarth.

Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right

Brown wash drawing of foundling children gathering at a doorway, a man holding an infant, ships and a church in the backgroun

Study for the Foundlings

Pen and ink drawing of a skeleton wrestling a man to the ground, with a faint sketched shield in the upper right corner.

George Taylor's Epitaph: Death Giving George Taylor a Cross Buttock

1750

Black chalk drawing of a reclining female nude resting her arm on a rock, legs stretched diagonally across the sheet.

Study of a Female Nude

Red chalk drawing of many overlapping caricatured heads showing varied grimacing and shouting expressions.

Sheet of Studies of Heads

ca. 1795