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Engraved shop card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse with allegorical figures, a ship, and views of Italian cities.

Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse

1720-72

Etching of a knight seated in wooden stocks while a crowd of onlookers gathers and gestures in a brick courtyard.

Hudibras in Tribulation (Twelve Large Illustrations for Saumel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 6)

February 1725-26

Etching of two mounted prisoners led through a street by a jeering crowd of men and women carrying cudgels, beside a building

Hudibras and Ralpho Made Prisoners and Carried to the Stocks (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudib…

1721-26

Engraving of a drowsy church congregation, a preacher reading in the pulpit beside an hourglass, and a sleeping woman with a

The Sleeping Congregation

April 21, 1762

Etched portrait of a seated heavyset man in a buttoned coat and curled wig, beside a desk with a book and quill.

Simon Lord Lovat

1746

Engraving of a busy inn yard with a stagecoach, travelers, spectators on a balcony, and marching soldiers at right.

The Stage Coach, or Country Inn Yard

June 1747

Engraving of a city street fire with firefighters, a ladder, a hand pump, fleeing crowds, and smoke over burning buildings.

Spotprent op de toestand in het land, 1762

1762

Engraved half-length portrait of Martin Folkes in a curled wig, gesturing with one hand before a stone column.

Martin Folkes

1742

Engraving of a funeral with a shrouded body on a table, an open grave, gravediggers with shovels, and mourners in a rocky lan

The Funeral of Chrystom and Marcella Vindicating Herself (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etching of a mounted knight with a lance freeing chained men as a fallen figure lies on the ground beside him.

Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etching of a funeral with a corpse beside an open grave, a woman in a gown, digging men, and a crowd of mourners.

The Funeral of Chrystom & Marcella vindicating herself (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etching of an innkeeper's wife and daughter tending a bruised man by candlelight in a tavern, with an owl overhead.

The Innkeeper's Wife & Daughter taking Care of ye Don after being beaten & bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etching of a knight with lance on horseback confronting a fallen barber beside a donkey, with a rider and trees behind.

The Adventure of Mambrino's Helmet (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etching of two gesturing men in a rocky landscape, with a goatherd holding a staff and a man leaning on a goat.

Don Quixote and the Knight of the Rock (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Engraving of two disguised figures in an interior with a stag's head, shelf of pewter, and laughing seated man at right.

The Curate and Barber Disguising Themselves to Convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Etched interior with two disguised figures in a doorway, a woman adjusting a garment, antlers and a shelf of pottery on the w

The Curate and the Barber Disguising Themselves to convey Don Quixote Home (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

1756 or after

Engraving by William Hogarth showing paintings flying and tumbling through a street among rooftops and a weathervane.

The Battle of the Pictures

1745

Etching of a wheat field with a country house and trees on the horizon, and a seated figure with a dog in the lower left.

View of Ranby's House

May 1, 1781

Engraving of a night cellar with a fireplace, a woman holding a lantern, and men gambling and sleeping among overturned furni

The Idle 'Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken into a Night Cellar with his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, pl…

September 30, 1747

Engraved crowd scene with a gallows, soldiers with pikes, spectators on stands and street hawkers in the foreground.

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (Industry and Idleness, plate 11)

September 30, 1747

Engraving of apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard as a man with a cane looms over them, skulls and bones nearby.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3

September 30, 1747

Engraved receipt with three putti at an easel and drawing, a draped bust above, and script text below.

Drie putti en een beeld van Natura

1731

Engraved street scene of musicians and drummers in a wedding procession beside a shop doorway with onlookers and a dog.

The Industrious 'Prentice Out of his Time and Married to his Master's Daughter: Industry and Idleness, plate 6

September 30, 1747

Engraving of a rowing boat on choppy water with an apprentice, a woman in a cloak, and a man at the oars; ships behind.

The Idle 'Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5

September 30, 1747

Engraving of a sailor and a woman startled in a cluttered garret bedroom beside a fireplace and bed.

The Idle 'Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7

September 30, 1747

Engraved scene of a crowded civic banquet in a hall, with feasting diners at a long table and a robed official at right.

The Industrious 'Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London: Industry and Idleness, plate 8

September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman sharing a hymnal in a pew, organ and congregation behind.

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: IIndustry and Idleness, plate 2

September 30, 1747

Engraving of a church interior with an apprentice and young woman singing from a hymnal in a pew, an organ and congregation b

The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2

September 30, 1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk beside a workshop of spinners, with a cat and dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4

September 30, 1747

Engraving of crowns, a mace, sceptre, mitre and books piled beneath a sunburst, with printed text panels below.

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, etc.

1755

Etching of seated men in ruffed collars at a table, one balancing an egg, with a standing figure and column behind them.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

December 1, 1753

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a well-dressed man and a book at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1

September 30, 1747