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Engraved copper plate of an interior scene with women, a seated figure, draped curtain, table with jugs, and wall picture.

Plate three, from A Harlot's Progress

1732, reworked/reissued 1744

Copper engraving plate showing an interior scene with seated women, a table, and a crowd of figures in fine engraved lines.

Plate four, from A Harlot's Progress

1732, reworked/reissued 1744

Engraved copper plate showing an interior with a fireplace, hanging laundry, and figures including a violin player.

Plate five, from A Harlot's Progress

1732, reworked/reissued 1744

Copper printing plate engraved with an interior scene of women and men near a window and a vase.

Plate six, from A Harlot's Progress

1732, reworked/reissued 1744

Engraving by Hogarth of a winged reclining figure smoking among broken objects, an hourglass, a signboard and ruins.

Tailpiece, or the Bathos

April 1764

Etching of men shaving and eating breakfast in an interior, with a seated man drawing, after William Hogarth, 1781.

William Hogarth making a drawing of his companions and himself as they shave and take their breakfast. Etching by Ric…

Engraved print of a crowded fairground with stages, a clock tower, flags, dancers, and a collapsing wooden scaffold.

Southwark Fair

1733/34

Engraving of a raucous election feast in a crowded tavern, with diners, musicians, a servant pouring drink and a banner.

An Election Entertainment, plate one from Four Prints of an Election

1757/58

Engraved frontispiece with oval portrait of Samuel Butler above a pedestal scene with a chariot, mountain and allegorical fig

Frontispiece, plate one from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a mounted knight and squire riding past an inn, a dog leaping nearby, and a market woman and cobbler at right.

Hudibras Sallying Forth, plate two from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a mounted knight with a pistol facing a crowd of villagers with pipes and staves, a bear on a chain nearby.

Hudibras' First Adventure, plate three from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a street scene with a man in the pillory, a mounted knight, a squire, onlookers, and verse below.

Hudibras Triumphant, plate four from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a crowded outdoor brawl with a woman in a laced bodice facing down armed men beside a cottage and trees.

Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla, plate five from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a bearded knight seated in wooden stocks in a courtyard, watched by a crowd, with verse below.

Hudibras in Tribulation, plate six from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Etching of a boisterous village procession with horsemen, drummers and a crowd, beside a thatched cottage and inn sign.

Hudibras and the Skimmington, plate seven from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a cluttered study with a skeleton, hanging crocodile, globe, and two seated men at a table covered with diagrams

Hudibras and Sidrophel, plate eight from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of an interior with figures in a violent struggle, a woman with a candle, a staircase, and verse below.

Hudibras Catechized, plate nine from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of men seated at a table in a room with hanging hats and a clock, gesturing in debate.

The Committee, plate ten from Hudibras

February 1725/26

Engraving of a crowd burning effigies at Temple Bar gateway, with men in tall hats, a bonfire, and spectators at windows.

Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar, plate eleven from Hudibras

February 1725/26

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

Engraving of a preacher before a judge and crowd, with a winged devil and scales of justice, in a Rembrandt-style manner.

Paul before Felix

1752

Engraved street scene of a stagecoach at an inn, with passengers, men riding on the roof, and a crowd of onlookers.

Carriage near an inn

1747

Hogarth engraving of drunken men smoking and drinking around a punch bowl in a tavern at midnight.

A Midnight Modern Conversation

March 1732/33

Engraved interior with a seated man by a fireplace, a woman at a tea table, and a standing man with books near a column.

Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 2. The tête-à-tête

1745

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

Grotesque Female 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

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

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

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

Analysis of Beauty. Plate II

1753

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