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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

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

A Rake's Progress: pl.5

William Hogarth, 1735

Brown wash drawing of a man fleeing servants in a columned hall with a banquet table, a dog and onlookers.

Sancho Fleeing from the Servants of the Duke

François Boucher, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1735

Drawing of reclining cherubs with bows and arrows on clouds, in a curved lunette format by François Boucher, 1765.

The Archery Contest

François Boucher, 1765

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

William Hogarth, 1735

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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1747

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

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1762

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

The South Sea Scheme

William Hogarth, 1721

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

The Lottery

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1751

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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1726

Etching of a formal city square with an equestrian statue, carriages, strollers on balustraded terraces and trees.

Place de Louis XV

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1770

Etching of ruined abbey walls, arches and gable overgrown with ivy and trees, with a small figure walking in the grassy foreg

Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg: Small Version

Hercules Seghers, c. 1618-1622