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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

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

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

William Hogarth, 1752

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

The Bench

William Hogarth, 1758

Characters and Caricaturas

William Hogarth, 1743

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

A Chorus of Singers

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1736/1737

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

William Hogarth, 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

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

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

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, Etc

William Hogarth, 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

William Hogarth, 1761

Girolamo da Siena

Etching of a stern mustached man in a feathered cap and quilted coat, holding a sword, against a hatched sky.

Kunz von der Rosen

Daniel Hopfer, c. 1518

Engraving of a ragged man offering a bowl to two seated beggars beside a bare tree and a hanging sign.

The Beggars

Lucas van Leyden, c. 1510

Engraving of a Passion coat of arms with Christ holding a cross, the Virgin, a lamb, winged beasts, an eagle and Passion symb

Coat of Arms of the Passion

Master E. S., c. 1455/1460

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

Etched title page with an oval cartouche flanked by two lions, scrollwork and an urn, inscribed Nouvelles inventions de Carto

Title Page for "Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches"

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Etched cartouche with a blank center, supported by a triton and siren amid sea creatures and scrollwork.

Cartouche Supported by Triton and Siren

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Etching of a blank oval cartouche surrounded by reeds and ducks on water, with rocks at the base.

Cartouche with Ducks and Dogs

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Etching of an oval cartouche with two centaurs holding up a flayed tiger skin, with feathery scrollwork above.

Cartouche in the Form of a Flayed Tiger Supported by Centaurs

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Etching of an empty cartouche with feathered wings, scrolling ornament, and two infants holding a crown at the top.

Cartouche with Eagles and Two Infants Holding a Crown

Stefano Della Bella, 1647