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William Hogarth

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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