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Copper engraving plate showing two women in bonnets and long dresses in an interior with a barrel and basket.

Plate one, from A Harlot's Progress

1732, reworked/reissued 1744

Line engraving of seated Captain Thomas Coram with a globe, charts and ships in the background, after Hogarth.

Thomas Coram. Line engraving by B. Holl after W. Hogarth

Engraving of a crowded ballroom with dancers, surrounded by numbered panels of facial expressions and decorative line studies

Analysis of Beauty. Plate II

1753

Engraved self-portrait of a man in a fur hat with a pug dog, a palette inscribed The Line of Beauty, and stacked books.

Gulielmus Hogarth

1748/1749

Engraving of a street scene: an older woman touches a young woman's chin beside a carriage, with men in a doorway at right.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.1

1732

Engraved interior with a seated woman gesturing, a man in a wig holding a teacup, a servant in a turban, and a dog.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.2

1732

Engraving of a bedchamber with a seated woman, a servant pouring tea, and a gentleman in a wig entering from the right.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.3

1732

Engraving of a brick workroom with a fashionable couple at left and women workers at right, plate 4 of A Harlot's Progress.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.4

1732

Engraving of a cluttered garret with two men, women in headscarves, a child, a canopy bed and a fireplace.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.5

1732

Engraving of a crowded tavern room with women and men around a table, a child in a plumed hat beneath it, and a jug at right.

A Harlot's Progress: pl.6

1732

Engraving of a cluttered interior with a young man being measured, an old man writing, women, and a cat.

A Rake's Progress: pl.1

1735

Engraving of fashionable figures in a grand interior, with a harpsichordist, a sword-carrying gentleman, and a verse caption

A Rake's Progress: pl.2

1735

Engraving of a riotous 18th-century party with drinkers, musicians and a woman dressing in a cluttered room.

A Rake's Progress: pl.3

1735

Hogarth engraving of a street scene with a woman, a sedan chair, a ragged man and a lamplighter on a ladder.

A Rake's Progress: pl.4

1735

Engraving of a church wedding scene with a bride, groom, clergyman, children and two dogs beside carved pews.

A Rake's Progress: pl.5

1735

Engraving of a crowded tavern scene with gambling men, a dog, and a fallen man beside an overturned chair and wig.

A Rake's Progress: pl.6

1735

Engraving of a crowded barred prison room with a seated man reading at a table, a canopied bed, a child, and a jailer with ke

A Rake's Progress: pl.7

1735

Engraving of an asylum ward with a chained half-naked man held by a weeping woman, onlookers, a violinist and a dog.

A Rake's Progress: pl.8

1735

Engraved print of a busy 18th-century London street at dawn with vendors, a fire, and a coffeehouse sign.

Morning

1738

Engraved street scene with a church spire, a tavern sign, a crowd, a beggar on the ground, and a well-dressed couple.

Noon

1738

Engraving of two apprentices at looms in a workshop, one idle beside a dog, with a standing overseer at right.

The Fellow 'Prentices at Their Looms

1747

Engraving of two young apprentices sharing a hymn book in a church, with an elderly woman reading and a crowded congregation

The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Dutyof a Christian

1747

Engraving of apprentices gambling on a tomb in a churchyard, with skulls and bones scattered below, by Hogarth.

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service

1747

Engraving of a master and apprentice at a desk in a counting house, with spinning workers, a cat and a dog in the foreground.

The Industrious 'Prentice a Favorite, and entrusted by his Master

1747

Engraving of figures in a rowing boat on choppy sea, with sailing ships and windmills in the distance.

The Idle 'Prentice turn'd away, and sent to Sea

1747

Hogarth engraving of a busy London street with musicians, a seated beggar with a dog, and a man tossing a coin at a shop door

The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, and Married to his Master's Daughter

1747

Engraving of a cluttered garret where a startled young man and woman in bed react with raised hands.

The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute

1747

Engraving of a crowded banquet hall with diners at a table and a robed official with a staff at right.

The Industrious 'Prentice grown rich & Sheriff of London

1747

Engraving of an apprentice in a night cellar tavern, with a woman pointing at an approaching constable holding a lantern.

The Idle 'Prentice betray'd by his Whore, & taken in a Night Cellar with his Accomplice

1747

Engraving of a courtroom: a robed alderman sits at right while an apprentice holds a book before a crowd, with a clerk writin

The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London,the Idle one brought before him & impea ch'd by his Accomplice

1747

Engraving of a crowded execution scene at Tyburn with soldiers, spectators on stands, vendors, and a distant gallows under a

The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn

1747

Engraving of a Lord Mayor's procession, with a gilded carriage moving through a crowded London street lined with onlookers.

The Industrious 'Prentice Lord-Mayor of London

1747

Engraving of actresses dressing in a cluttered barn among costumes, candles, musicians, children and animals.

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

1738

Engraving of a lawyer in wig and gown facing a knight in a room of bookshelves, with two clerks writing and dogs on the floor

Hudibras and the Lawyer

1725/1726

Engraving of a cluttered study with a skeleton, hanging crocodile and two bearded men arguing at a table covered in diagrams.

Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum

1725/1726

Engraved plate of an artist's studio with statues, anatomical drawings, and ornamental motifs framed by numbered border panel

Analysis of Beauty: pl.1

1753

Engraved city street with a large fire, firefighters with hoses, a bucket line, and crowds of people in the foreground.

The Times, pl.1

1762

Hogarth engraving of a crowded London street with a whirligig ride, gamblers, allegorical figures and a monument inscribed wi

The South Sea Scheme

1721

Engraving of an allegorical lottery scene with a central pedestal, large drawing wheels, draped curtains and crowded figures.

The Lottery

1721

Etching of a courtroom scene with a bearded speaker, robed judges, a blindfolded Justice with scales, and a winged devil.

Paul before Felix Burlesqued

1751

Etching of six men in 17th-century dress gathered at a table with eggs, a plate, and a column behind them.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

1752

Engraving of three judges in wigs seated on the bench, one dozing, with explanatory text printed below.

The Bench

1758

Characters and Caricaturas

1743

Etching of a crowded choir of wigged singers reading sheet music, with a conductor beating time above them.

A Chorus of Singers

1732

Engraving of a church where a preacher reads from a pulpit while many congregants, including a woman with a fan, sleep.

The Sleeping Congregation

1736

Hogarth etching of a chaotic theatre rehearsal with actors at a table, hanging ropes, a fallen chair and a fiddler above.

A Just View of the British Stage

1724

Hogarth engraving of a mock coat of arms filled with grotesque wigged physician caricatures, crossed bones, and a Latin motto

The Company of Undertakers

1736/1737

The Five Orders of Perriwigs as They Were Worn at the Late Coronation, Measured Architectonically

1761

Engraving of a busy inn yard with a stage-coach, travellers boarding by ladder, and onlookers on balconies.

The Stage-coach, or the Country Inn Yard

1747

Hogarth etching of a bedchamber with rabbits scattered on the floor and men in consultation around a woman in childbed.

Cunicularii, or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation

1726

Engraving of heaped crowns, mitres, maces and books under a radiant crown, with printed text panels below.

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, Etc

1754

Engraving of winged Time smoking a pipe over a dark seascape painting on an easel, with a varnish jar beside it.

Time Smoking a Picture

1761

Etching by William Hogarth showing paintings flying and tumbling through a street toward a studio, with a weathervane and clo

Strijd tussen schilderijen

1744

Oval line engraving of James Gibbs, a man with curled hair and dark coat, before a classical architectural background.

James Gibbs. Line engraving by A. Bannerman, 1762, after J. McArdell after W. Hogarth

Engraving of a bear in a cravat drinking ale beside a pug dog, with books, a pipe and an oval frame behind them.

[The Bruiser, C. Churchill]

1763

Etching of four studied heads: a scowling bald man, a curly-haired youth, a bearded man, and a turbaned old man.

Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court

c. 1729

Etching of a seated man holding a pole topped with a LIBERTY cap, with a quill, inkstand and North Briton paper on a desk.

[John Wilkes]

1763

Engraving of Gin Lane by William Hogarth, 1751, showing a squalid street with a drunken woman, falling infant and ruined buil

[Gin Lane]

1751

Engraving of a kneeling man in a hooded robe holding a reclining figure, with a skull, book, rosary and fruit in a rocky land

Sir Francis Dashwood at his devotions. Engraving attributed to W. Platt after W. Hogarth

Engraving of an artist's studio with statues, anatomical figures, and framed ornament borders, from Hogarth's Analysis of Bea

Analysis of Beauty, Plate I

1753

Engraving of an 18th-century outdoor election polling scene with crowds on a wooden platform and a carriage crossing a stone

[The Polling, z cyklu "Four Prints of an Election"]

1758

Engraved interior of a cluttered garret with a poet writing at a desk, a seated woman sewing, and a servant by a cupboard.

[The Distrest Poet]

1740

Engraving of a city street with boys and men tormenting animals while onlookers watch from a wall.

[Firt Stage of Cruelty, z cyklu "The Four Stages of Cruelty"]

1751

Engraving of a church where a preacher reads in a pulpit while congregants sleep in pews and a woman dozes with a fan.

Gemeente in een kerk slaapt terwijl het Evangelie wordt voorgelezen

1736

Hogarth engraving of a winged skeleton among ruins, an hourglass, and scattered objects beneath a sign reading The World's En

Allegorie op het einde der tijd

1764

Engraving of a cluttered interior where a tailor kneels to fit a young man's coat while others watch from the room.

Tom Rakewell wordt een nieuw pak aangemeten

1735

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century interior with a harpsichord player, fashionably dressed figures, and framed paintings on

Tom Rakewell omringd door mensen in de ochtend

1735

Engraving of a rowdy tavern scene with drinkers around a table, a harp, hanging portraits and a woman seated in the foregroun

Tom Rakewell beschonken in een bordeel

1707

Engraving of a young man in a wig beside an elderly bride as a clergyman reads, with dogs and children in a stone-walled inte

Tom Rakewell trouwt een oude rijke vrouw

1735

Engraved prison scene with a distressed man, a fainting woman on a bed, a child, and a jailer with keys by a barred door.

Tom Rakewell met afwijzingsbrief en Sarah Young flauwgevallen

1735

Engraving of an asylum interior with a shackled man tended by a woman, inmates, well-dressed visitors and a violinist.

Tom Rakewell in Bethlem Royal Hospital

1735

Engraving of a crowded election feast in a tavern with drinking men, musicians, a puppet show, and a boy pouring from a barre

Vermaak als propaganda

1755

Engraving of men drinking and smoking pipes around a punch bowl in a cluttered tavern, with a man asleep on the floor.

Gezelschap van drinkende en rokende mannen

1732

Engraving of a crowded church with a preacher in a pulpit, an agitated congregation, a fainting woman and devil figures.

Spreekgestoelte met prediker en toehoorders

1762

Etched portrait of a heavyset seated man in a buttoned coat and boots, beside a desk with a book and quill, 1746.

Portret van Simon Fraser

1746

Engraved print of a Greek patriarchal tiara with winged cherub heads, a central ornamental band, and a cross on top.

Tiara met serafijnen

1723

Engraved sheet showing an allegorical medallion with two female figures above a printed text about Hogarth's gold admission t

Medaillon met personificaties van Moed (Virtus) en Wellust (Voluptas)

1823

Engraving of a London street with lightning overhead, a woman in white tugged by gamblers beside a sedan chair, and a crowd b

O Vanity of Youthful Blood

1735

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

Engraving of a busy city street with a man beating a horse, a carriage, sheep, and a fallen child under a cloudy sky.

[Second Stage of Cruelty, z cyklu "The Four Stages of Cruelty"]

1751

Engraving of men in wigs drinking and smoking around a punch bowl in a tavern, with a fallen man on the floor.

[A Midnight Modern Conversation]

1733

Engraving of a chaotic city street with musicians, a woman carrying a pot, a drumming boy and a man at a window.

[The Engraged Musician]

1741

Engraved print of a crowded 18th-century election feast in a tavern with drinking revelers, musicians, and a wooden tub in th

[An Election Entertainment, z cyklu "Four Prints of an Election"]

1755

Engraved night street scene with a lantern-bearing couple, a bonfire, an overturned cart, and hanging shop signs.

[Night, z cyklu "The Four Times of Day"]

1738

Engraving of a night scene: a crowd of men surrounds a figure beside a church tower while a woman lies dead on the ground.

[Cruelty in Perfection, z cyklu "The Four Stages of Cruelty"]

1751

Engraving of a woman striking a man in a wig beside a dressing table in a canopied bedroom, with a small dog nearby.

[Before]

1736

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century street at noon with a church spire, a well-dressed couple, a pie seller and a beggar.

[Noon, z cyklu "The Four Times of Day"]

1738

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

Sheet of Studies of Heads

ca. 1795

Engraved portrait of William Hogarth seated at an easel, holding a palette and brushes, with a sketch of figures on the canva

Portret van William Hogarth

1764

Engraving of a crowded church with a preacher in a pulpit, fainting worshippers, a kissing couple, and a devil figure.

[Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism]

1762

Engraving of an anatomy theatre with surgeons dissecting a corpse before a crowd, skeletons in niches, and a dog in the foreg

[The Reward of Cruelty, z cyklu "The Four Stages of Cruelty"]

1751

Engraving of a riotous street scene with a man carried on a chair, a crowd, pigs, a donkey, and spectators at windows.

[Chairing the Members, z cyklu "Four Prints of an Election"]

1758

Engraving of costumed actresses and children in a cluttered barn interior, with a dancing woman at the center.

Verklede actrices en kinderen in een schuur

1738

Satirical etching of a theatre rehearsal set inside a brick prison, with seated men, a violinist, and tumbling figures among

William-hogarth-just-view-of-the-british-stage

Two engravings side by side: left, a busy street with merry drinkers; right, a decaying street with a mother, infant, and col

Beer-street-and-Gin-lane

1751