Artworks · William Hogarth

Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons, engraved by Thomas Cook

1803 · Engraving on paper

image: 396 x 526 mm

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Dr Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester, engraved by Thomas Cook

1800 · Engraving on paper

image: 321 x 264 mm

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The Rape of the Lock

1800 · Lithographed copy of an engraving

sheet: 4 5/16 x 5 9/16 in. (10.9 x 14.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Indian Emperor, engraved by Robert Dodd

1792 · Engraving on paper

image: 406 x 540 mm

Tate

Satan, Sin and Death, engraved by Thomas Rowlandson and John Ogbourne after T00790

1792 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 273 x 348 mm

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Beggar’s Opera, Act III, engraved by William Blake

1790 · Engraving on paper

image: 401 x 537 mm

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The Staymaker, engraved by Joseph Haynes

1782 · Etching on paper

image: 265 x 352 mm

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Tailpiece, or The Bathos

1764 · etching and engraving

sheet: 31.4 × 33.4 cm (12 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.) mount: 37.2 × 43.5 cm (14 5/8 × 17 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Tailpiece, or the Bathos

1764 · Etching and engraving in black on cream wove paper

Plate: 31.5 × 33.5 cm (12 7/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 42.2 × 47.2 cm (16 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

John Wilkes Esq.

1763 · etching

sheet: 35.1 × 23 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.) mount: 62.7 × 46.7 cm (24 11/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Bruiser

1763 · etching and engraving

sheet: 37.3 × 27.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.) mount: 62.8 × 45.4 cm (24 3/4 × 17 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Times, pl.1

1762 · etching and engraving

sheet: 24.8 × 30.4 cm (9 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism

1762 · etching and engraving

sheet: 43.3 × 32.7 cm (17 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.) mount (irreg.): 62.7 × 43.5 cm (24 11/16 × 17 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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

1761 · etching on laid paper

plate: 29.9 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 33.6 × 23.6 cm (13 1/4 × 9 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Time Smoking a Picture

1761 · etching and mezzotint

sheet: 22.5 x 18.1 cm (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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

1761 · etching

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.6 x 21.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Cockpit

1759 · etching and engraving

sheet: 31.2 × 37.7 cm (12 5/16 × 14 13/16 in.) mount: 46.3 × 62.8 cm (18 1/4 × 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo

1759 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1004 x 1265 mm

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The Cockpit

1759 · Engraving in black on tan wove paper

Image: 29.6 × 37 cm (11 11/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Plate: 32.1 × 38.5 cm (12 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.); Sheet: 47.1 × 62.9 cm (18 9/16 × 24 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bench

1758 · etching and engraving

sheet: 30 × 21 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Bench

1758 · etching and engraving

sheet: 30.8 × 20.6 cm (12 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Four Prints of an Election, plate 4: Chairing the Members

1758 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 403 x 540 mm

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Four Prints of an Election, plate 2: Canvassing for Votes, engraved by Charles Grignion

1757 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 405 x 537 mm

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

1757 · Engraving in black on cream laid paper

Image: 40 × 54 cm (15 3/4 × 21 5/16 in.); Plate: 43.7 × 55.9 cm (17 1/4 × 22 1/16 in.); Sheet: 44.9 × 58 cm (17 11/16 × 22 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

France

1756 · etching and engraving

sheet: 31.6 × 38.6 cm (12 7/16 × 15 3/16 in.) mount: 45.5 × 62.8 cm (17 15/16 × 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

England

1756 · etching and engraving

sheet: 31.5 × 38.4 cm (12 3/8 × 15 1/8 in.) mount (irreg.): 45.4 × 62.8 cm (17 7/8 × 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate Two, from The Analysis of Beauty

1756 · Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now split in two, with the left side laid down on back book cover and the right side in two parts)

Image: 36.5 × 49.5 cm (14 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Plate: 41.5 × 54.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

An Election Entertainment

1755 · etching and engraving

sheet: 43.1 × 55.4 cm (16 15/16 × 21 13/16 in.) mount: 46.3 × 62.7 cm (18 1/4 × 24 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, Etc.

1754 · etching

sheet: 22.5 × 19.5 cm (8 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Analysis of Beauty: pl.2

1753 · etching and engraving

sheet: 41.3 × 51.8 cm (16 1/4 × 20 3/8 in.) mount: 46.3 × 62.8 cm (18 1/4 × 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Analysis of Beauty: pl.1

1753 · etching and engraving

overall: 38.2 × 50.1 cm (15 1/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

1753

xxii, [2], 153, [5] pages, 2 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; Height: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate One, from The Analysis of Beauty

1753 · Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now in two parts, with the right side laid down on front book cover)

Image: 36.6 × 49 cm (14 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.); Plate: 41 × 54 cm (16 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 56.5 cm (16 9/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Columbus Breaking the Egg

1752 · etching

sheet: 19.8 × 20.2 cm (7 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Paul before Felix

1752 · etching and engraving

sheet: 41.5 × 51.8 cm (16 5/16 × 20 3/8 in.) mount: 46.6 × 62.8 cm (18 3/8 × 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Paul before Felix

1752 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 384 x 508 mm

Tate

Moses Brought to Pharoah’s Daughter

1752 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 390 x 505 mm

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Paul before Felix Burlesqued

1751 · etching with some mezzotint tone

sheet: 26.2 × 35 cm (10 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Gin Lane

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet: 38.9 × 32.3 cm (15 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.) mount: 62.8 × 45.6 cm (24 3/4 × 17 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Beer Street

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet: 37.7 × 32 cm (14 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 62.7 × 45.3 cm (24 11/16 × 17 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Reward of Cruelty

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet (trimmed to plate): 38.6 × 31.8 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.) mount: 62.7 × 45.1 cm (24 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Cruelty in Perfection

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet: 38.5 × 31.7 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.) mount: 62.9 × 45.5 cm (24 3/4 × 17 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Second Stage of Cruelty

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet: 38.5 × 31.6 cm (15 3/16 × 12 7/16 in.) mount: 62.8 × 45.2 cm (24 3/4 × 17 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The First Stage of Cruelty

1751 · etching and engraving

sheet: 38.3 × 31.7 cm (15 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.) mount (irreg.): 43.1 × 35.5 cm (16 15/16 × 14 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Gin Lane

1751 · Etching and engraving on paper

image: 357 x 305 mm

Tate

Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter

1751 · Various red chalks (one oxidized to black) on cream laid paper

40.6 × 52.5 cm (16 × 20 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gin Lane

1751 · Engraved copper plate

15 7/16 x 12 7/8 in. (39.2 x 32.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beer Street

1751 · Engraved copper plate

15 7/16 x 13 in. (39.2 x 33 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art