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William Hogarth

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Engraved street scene with a woman in white at centre, a sedan chair, beggars, and lightning in the sky.

Plate Four, from A Rake's Progress

June 1735

Engraved church interior showing a wedding, with a clergyman, bride, groom, kneeling attendant, dogs and children.

Plate Five, from A Rake's Progress

June 1735

Engraving of a crowded tavern with gamblers, a kneeling disheveled man, a dog, and smoke, by William Hogarth, 1735.

Plate Six, from A Rake's Progress

June 1735

Engraving of a crowded prison room with a seated man, women, a child, and a jailer holding keys near a barred door.

Plate Seven, from A Rake's Progress

June 1735

Engraving of an asylum room with a chained, semi-nude man, a comforting woman, a violinist, and visitors among barred cells.

Plate Eight, from A Rake's Progress

June 1735

Engraved street scene of early morning with a woman in a gown, market women by a fire, and a coffee house sign.

Morning, plate one from The Four Times of the Day

May 1738

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century London street at noon, with a fashionable couple, beggars, a church spire, and signs.

Noon, plate two from The Four Times of the Day

May 1738

Engraved morning street scene with a woman smoking a pipe, vendors around a fire, and Tom King's Coffee House at right.

Morning, Plate One from The Four Times of Day

1738

Engraving of a street scene with a couple, a child, a dog, and a building labeled Sadler's Wells under a cloudy sky.

Mensen bij Sadler's Wells Theatre en de New River

1738

Engraving of a crowded city street with a tavern sign, church spire, beggar, gentlemen and children.

Menigte in een straat met kroegen en een kapel

1738

Engraving of a busy city street in the morning with figures gathered around a fire near a coffee house.

Menigte in Covent Garden

1738

Engraving of a night street scene with a bonfire, lantern-carrying couple, hanging tavern signs and figures in windows.

Nachtelijke oproer op straat

1738

Engraving of a woman pulling away from a seated man in a bedroom with a canopied bed, mirror and dog.

Man trekt een tegenstribbelende vrouw naar zich toe in een slaapkamer

1736

Engraving of a man in a wig and coat beside a seated woman on a canopy bed, with a dog and overturned furniture in the room.

‘After’

1736

Engraved bedroom scene of a woman clinging to a man in a wig beside a canopied bed, with a dog and scattered objects on the f

Vrouw hangt aan de arm van een man in een slaapkamer

1736

Engraving of actor David Garrick in royal robes as Richard III, seated on a bed with armour and a crown nearby.

Portret van David Garrick als koning Richard III

1748

Engraving of an elegant room where lawyers review papers at a table while a young couple sits apart beside a dog.

Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 1. The marriage settlement

1745

Etched print of a crowded choir of wigged singers with open mouths, a conductor raising his arm above them.

A Chorus of Singers, or The Oratorio

December 1732

Etching of two mounted riders leaving an inn as a dog jumps at their horses, with a woman selling eggs at a table nearby.

Sr. Hudibras, His Passing Worth, The Manner How He Sally'd Forth": Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hud…

February 1725-26

Engraved frontispiece with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler above a bas-relief scene of a chariot, figures and a seated alle

Frontispiece and Its Explanation: Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 1

February 1725-26

Engraving of a laughing theatre audience in wigs and bonnets, with an orange seller flirting with a gentleman on a balcony.

The Laughing Audience

1766-99

Etching of tiny figures operating a long siphon engine aimed at a giant beside a stone palace, after Gulliver's Travels.

The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver

December 1726

The Five Orders of Periwigs

November 1761

Ink sketch of four standing men in period dress compared against a height scale, labeled short, Quin, Garrick, and tall.

Sketches of Quin and Garrick

May 12, 1797

Etching of John Wilkes seated, holding a pole with a Liberty cap, with North Briton papers and an inkstand on a desk beside h

John Wilkes, Esq.

May 16, 1763

Engraving of a bear in a coat holding a tankard, with a dog, books and a palette in the foreground.

The Bruiser

August 1, 1763

Satirical engraving of robed figures, a donkey, and a skeletal figure processing before a tavern with onlookers.

The Mystery of Masonry Brought to Light by the Gormagons

[first published December 1724] later reissue

Engraving of an allegorical stage scene with lottery wheels, a central pedestal of gods, and crowds of figures below.

The Lottery

after 1724

Engraved satirical street scene with crowds, a goat atop a pole, a monument inscription, and a devil figure.

An Emblematic Print on the South Sea

late 18th century

Hogarth etching of a crowded London street with a whirligig ride, gamblers, a monument column and a devil figure.

The South Sea Scheme

1722

Engraving of seven figures in traditional dress dancing in a circle, holding hands under large trees with a town in the dista

A Native Dance (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vo…

1723-24

Etching of a turbaned ruler in ceremonial robes before a draped curtain, with kneeling and standing attendants in an interior

Sultan Ahmed III Crowned in the Mosque at Eyups (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Par…

1723-24