The Gates of Calais, or the roast beef of old England
Scene at the Gate of Calais with a fat monk prodding a large sirloin of beef carried by a cook, on either side are two French soldiers. On the left, three market women with crosses hanging from their necks admi... More
William Hogarth - The curate and barber disguising themselves
One of six illustrations for a projected Spanish language edition of Don Quixote that Hogarth and other illustrators were asked to submit by Tonson, the publisher of the work. Two of Don Quixote's neighbors are... More
William Hogarth - The good Samaritan
Scene from Luke 10:30. The Good Samaritan depicts the biblical story with the Samaritan pouring oil and wine into the wound of the injured man, a first century practice that continued until the 16th century. In... More
William Hogarth - The seraglio (vol. I, pl. 18)
Hogarth's first major commission for book illustrations was for Aubry de la Motraye's "Travels." Hogarth took only the costumes and created his own poses. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Morning
Scene in Covent Garden with an elaborately dressed middle-aged woman heading towards St Paul's church followed by a small servant boy. To the right two young gentlemen embrace market girls while other women hud... More
Pl. 1. The fellow 'prentices at their looms
Tom Idle sleeps at his loom beneath a ballad of Moll Flanders, having drunk from a large tankard lettered "Spittle Fields." Francis Goodchild concentrates on his work while light streams through the window on t... More
Thomas Rowlandson - The pretty bar maid
Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More
The overturned coach, Thomas Rowlandson
Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th cent... More
Oscar Wilde, music title page lithograph
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tom Paine's nightly pest, James Gillray
Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap and lies diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, ... More
Reading the will, Thomas Rowlandson
Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More
The patriotick barber of New York, or the Captain in the suds
Cartoon shows a New York barber refusing to finish shaving a customer after learning of his British identity. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
United Irishmen in training, James Gillray
Outside a country ale-house, ruffians are practicing their weapons at close range on the effigy of a British soldier that is spiked on a spear (left). It wears helmet, coat stuffed with straw, and top-boots. On... More
William Hogarth - The lottery - Public domain engraving
This print was designed by William Hogarth as an emblematic representation of the chances of fate or fortune. The engraved postscript explains the figures. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Royalty, episcopy, and law
This print was designed by Hogarth as a satire on the government of his time. Royalty, episcopy and law appear on the three thrones. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Taste, or the Burlington Gate
Satire on Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Burlington" in which he praises Lord Burlington's architectural taste. The gate of Burlington House, Piccadilly, surmounted by statues of William Kent, Raphael and Michela... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 4
Bridewell prison with inmates (including prostitutes and a card-player) beating hemp under the supervision of a warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant finger... More
William Hogarth - A chorus of singers
This print as originally made as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation." Seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A midnight modern conversation
A drinking scene with eleven men in a paneled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower right... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 2
A fashionable interior with Tom, in elegant indoor dress. He is surrounded by tradespeople and servants. In the image are a gardener, dancing master, jockey holding a trophy for the race at Epsom, and fencing m... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 6
Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice. Behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke a... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 4
A scene in St James's Street with Tom emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt. Sarah Young drops her seamstress's box as she offers a purse of money to reprieve her former lover. Courtesy of Boston ... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 1
The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 5
Interior of the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone where Tom is marrying a one-eyed, wealthy old woman. In the background Sarah Young attempts to enter with her child. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 2
A fashionable interior with Tom, in elegant indoor dress. He is surrounded by tradespeople and servants, such as his gardener, dancing and fencing master. To the side is a musician seated at the harpsichord. Th... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 6
Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice. Behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke a... More
William Hogarth - After - Engraving, Public domain image
After the seduction; the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm; on the wall a picture entitled "After" with cupid pointing to a spent firework; on the floor a broken looking-gl... More
William Hogarth - Before - Engraving, Public domain image
A seduction scene with a young woman fending off the advances of a vigorous young man who pulls her towards a bed; on the wall a picture entitled "Before" with cupid lighting a firework. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The company of undertakers
A mock coat-of-arms with fifteen heads of doctors, three of whom, in the upper division, are identified as John Taylor, Sarah Mapp, and Joshua Ward. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Morning - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene in Covent Garden with an elaborately dressed middle-aged woman heading towards St Paul's church followed by a small servant boy. To the right two young gentlemen embrace market girls while other women hud... More
William Hogarth - The distressed poet
An untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Riches a Poem' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Martin Folkes
Portrait seated slightly to left, half-length with his right hand raised, eyes to front, wearing long wig, and open jacket over waistcoat. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Bishop Hoadly
Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly, three-quarter-length, slightly turned to the right, seated on a chair and gesturing with one hand. He has a periwig on his head, the robes of a chancellor of the Order of the Garter... More
William Hogarth - Characters and caricaturas
Subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode" with a group of naturalistic heads in profile and, below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e. "characters") and caricatures ... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 1
A grand interior where Earl Squander and a city merchant arrange the marriage of their son and daughter; the extravagantly dressed young man looks at his reflection in a glass while his future bride listens to ... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 3
Shown is the interior of a dispensary where the viscount has brought his child-mistress to visit M. de la Pillule whose remedy has not cured her venereal disease; a large, well-dressed woman (perhaps a procures... More
William Hogarth - The battle of the pictures
This etching was used as a bidder's ticket for an auction of 19 paintings by Hogarth. Ranks of copies of old master paintings stacked outside Cock's auction house attacking paintings by Hogarth as they emerge f... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 6
The countess is dying in a chair, an execution broadside at her feet indicates that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis)... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 5
A bedroom in a brothel where the earl falls dying after being struck with a sword by Silvertongue whom he has surprised with the countess. The lawyer escapes through the window to left as watchmen enter to righ... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 4
A grand bedroom with the countess holding a morning levée attended by her hairdresser while the lawyer, Silvertongue, arranges to meet her at a masquerade. Others in the room include a female friend and men who... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 6
The countess is dying in a chair, an execution broadside at her feet indicates that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis)... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 5
A bedroom in a brothel where the earl falls dying after being struck with a sword by Silvertongue whom he has surprised with the countess. The lawyer escapes through the window to left as watchmen enter to righ... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 1
A grand interior where Earl Squander and a city merchant arrange the marriage of their son and daughter; the extravagantly dressed young man looks at his reflection in a glass while his future bride listens to ... More
Simon Francois - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 4
A grand bedroom with the countess holding a morning levée attended by her hairdresser while the lawyer, Silvertongue, arranges to meet her at a masquerade. Others in the room include a female friend and men who... More
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 2
A lavishly furnished interior where the newlyweds sprawl on chairs in front of a fireplace in the early hours of the morning; he has been out on the town, while she has been playing cards to the accompaniment o... More
William Hogarth - Simon Lord Lovat
The elderly lord sitting on a chair, its back carved with putti supporting a coronet, at a table on which is a book lettered "Memoirs" and quill pen in an ink bottle. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Garrick in the character of Richard III
David Garrick in the role of Richard III, awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Garrick in the character of Richard III
David Garrick in the role of Richard III, awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Pl. 10. The industrious 'prentice alderman of London, the idle one bro...
A court of Justice with the elegant Alderman Goodchild holding his hand to his brow as Idle, at the bar, begs for mercy. Idle's female companion slips a coin into the hand of the clerk of the court while the on... More
Pl. 8. The industrious 'prentice grown rich and Sheriff of London
A banquet at Fishmongers' Hall with Goodchild and his wife in the seats of honor. In the foreground, greedy liverymen are waited on by a young black man, while a boorish beadle stops a crowd of petitioners at t... More
Pl. 4. The industrious 'prentice a favorite and entrusted by his maste...
A weaving shop with Mr. West handing authority for daily business to Goodchild. They stand at a desk, to right, receiving rolls of cloth delivered by a porter. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Pl. 2. The industrious 'prentice performing the duty of a Christian
Francis Goodchild shares the hymn book of his master's daughter at a service in a large church filled with pews; to left, an elderly woman pew-opener sits on a pile of hassocks. The church is St. Martin's-in-th... More
Pl. 12. The industrious 'prentice, Lord Mayor of London.
The Lord Mayor's carriage entering Cheapside surrounded by a mob and with spectators, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, on stands and at every window; to right, the east end of St Paul's Cathedral. Co... More
Pl. 7. The idle 'prentice returned from sea and in a garret with a com...
A ruinous garret with Idle and a young woman in a bed which is collapsing at the foot. She examines jewelry and watches that he has stolen, while he starts in alarm as a cat crashes down the chimney. Courtesy o... More
Pl. 9. The idle 'prentice betrayed by his whore and taken in a night c...
An underground drinking den where Idle shows his stolen goods to his one-eyed accomplice (see Plate 3) unaware that behind him his companion from the garret bedroom (see Plate 7) is pointing him out to the magi... More
The stage coach, or the country inn yard
Scene outside the 'Old Angle In', an inn with the sign of an angel that gives the proprietor as 'Toms. Bates', and a stop for coaches on the road to London. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Pl. 5. The idle 'prentice turned away and sent to sea
The River Thames, probably Limehouse Reach, with Tom Idle in a rowing boat heading for a ship and life at sea. He is accompanied by his weeping mother and two mocking sailors as well as the oarsman. Courtesy of... More
A stand of arms, musical instruments, etc.
Subscription ticket for "The March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons and musical instruments; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arm... More
A stand of arms, musical instruments, etc.
Subscription ticket for "The March to Finchley" with an arrangement of Scottish and English weapons and musical instruments; in the center a pair of scissors excises the Scottish lion from the royal coat-of-arm... More
William Hogarth - The first stage of cruelty
A London scene with young boys inflicting various forms of cruelty upon animals. In the center, a boy (Tom Nero), identifiable by the badge on his shoulder as a pupil of St. Giles's Parish School, thrusts an ar... More
William Hogarth - The reward of cruelty
An anatomy theatre where Nero's body is being dissected; on either side are skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Paul before Felix, burlesqued
This Hogarth engraved in the manner of Rembrandt was used as a subscription ticket "Paul before Felix." It proved so popular that he had to set a price on it and sell impressions separately. Courtesy of Boston ... More
William Hogarth - The second stage of cruelty
A street scene outside Thavies Inn, Holborn. In the foreground, a coach has overturned and four lawyers scramble out while Tom Nero, the coachman, beats the injured horse; other cruel and careless incidents tak... More
William Hogarth - Gin Lane - Engraving, Public domain image
A scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury. Courtesy of ... More
William Hogarth - Beer Street - Engraving, Public domain image
A flourishing urban scene with well fed citizens. In the foreground, butchers, fish wives and a City of London porter hold large tankards of beer. The steeple resembles St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Courtesy of Bos... More
William Hogarth - Boys peeping at nature
Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter" and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of a man... More
William Hogarth - Boys peeping at nature
Subscription ticket for "Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter" and "St Paul before Felix" with three naked boys, one painting, one engraving and the other resting an outline portrait against a sculpture of a man... More
William Hogarth - Paul before Felix
Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea. Paul to left with arms raised, Felix sitting with his wife Drusilla and two priests on a dais at center, one sitting with his chi... More
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 1
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Far... More
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 1
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Far... More
William Hogarth - Crowns, mitres, maces, etc
Subscription ticket for "An Election Entertainment" with the royal crown as a sun casting its rays on coronets, mitres and other symbols of power, as well as on a copy of "Hogarth's" Act of 1735. Courtesy of Bo... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 1. An election entertainment
A feast given by two candidates in an election for parliament. Two large tables in a paneled interior (probably intended as a 17th-century inn) are surrounded by an assembly of drunken citizens. Courtesy of Bos... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 1. An election entertainment
A feast given by two candidates in an election for parliament. Two large tables in a paneled interior (probably intended as a 17th-century inn) are surrounded by an assembly of drunken citizens. Courtesy of Bos... More
William Hogarth - The invasion, pl. 1: France
A scene beside a tavern ("La Sabot Royal") on the coast of France with a group of emaciated soldiers preparing to set sail for England. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
![The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca--with Adl. B[yn]g’s plea before his examiners](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE3NTYvMDEvMDEvdGhlLWVuZ2xpc2gtbGlvbi1kaXNtZW1iZXJkLW9yLXRoZS12b2ljZS1vZi10aGUtcHVibGljLWZvci1hbi1lbnF1aXJ5LWludG8tMmNmMTQyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquiry into the loss of Minorca--with Adl. B[yn]g’s plea before his examiners")
The English lion dismember'd, or the voice of the public for an enquir...
A lion with one of his paws (labeled Minorca) cut off. Frenchmen consult to one side about cutting more off while the Lord Mayor of London and other English politicians consult on the other. Minorca had been lo... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 2. Canvassing for votes
A rural scene with three inns: "The Portobello" (celebrating the naval victory of 1739 in contrast with the recent loss of Minorca), outside which two veterans sit reminiscing; "The Excise Office" (the Whig str... More
William Hogarth - Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 3. The polling
A rural scene with a polling booth where ailing reserve voters are being brought to vote and the able-bodied are amusing themselves with a drawing of one of the candidates, an execution broadside and a gin bott... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 3. The polling
A rural scene with a polling booth where ailing reserve voters are being brought to vote and the able-bodied are amusing themselves with a drawing of one of the candidates, an execution broadside and a gin bott... More
William Hogarth - Pl. 4. Chairing the members
Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Dodington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street,... More
William Hogarth - The bench - Public domain portrait engraving
The heavy judge in the center has been identified as Sir John Willes (1685-1761). The thin, long-nosed sleeper was identified as Henry, afterwards Earl, Bathurst (1714-94). The other two judges were identified ... More
The vanity of human glory. A design for the monument of General Wolfe,...
An attack on George Sackville for his alleged misconduct at Minden. Wolfe had recently died in glory on the battlefield at Quebec. The hound in the cartoon represents Sackville -- it is disgracing itself on the... More
William Hogarth - The march to Finchley
A scene at Tottenham Court Turnpike north of London with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The five orders of periwigs
Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian." At the bottom of the sheet a row of women's heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned... More
William Hogarth - The sleeping congregation
Interior of a church where the congregation sleeps as the clergyman reads from the gospel and the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the right. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 8
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a man wearing a wig and a warder. In the background, other inmates and two female visitors. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The bruiser - Public domain portrait engraving
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty... More
William Hogarth - John Wilkes - Public domain portrait engraving
Caricature portrait of John Wilkes holding the cap of Liberty; whole-length, seated to front, slightly forward, head turned and looking to the right, his left hand on his knee, the other supporting a pole toppe... More
William Hogarth - The bruiser - Public domain portrait engraving
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 8
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a man wearing a wig and a warder. In the background, other inmates and two female visitors. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More
Hogarth painting the cosmic muse
Self-portrait of Hogarth painting the Comic Muse. The artist is seated looking to right, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor ... More
William Hogarth - The bench - Public domain portrait engraving
The heavy judge in the center has been identified as Sir John Willes (1685-1761). The thin, long-nosed sleeper was identified as Henry, afterwards Earl, Bathurst (1714-94). The other two judges were identified ... More
William Hogarth - Tailpiece, or the bathos
This print, which was Hogarth's last, was planned to "serve as a Tail-piece to all the Author's engraved works," and was much celebrated as his farewell. Hogarth introduced into his print everything that could ... More
William Hogarth - Tailpiece, or the bathos
This print, which was Hogarth's last, was planned to "serve as a Tail-piece to all the Author's engraved works," and was much celebrated as his farewell. Hogarth introduced into his print everything that could ... More
The deplorable state of America or sc--h government
Britannia opens Pandora's Box (the Stamp Act) while Liberty is repressed by a thistle representing Lord Bute, or "Scotch Government." Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The repeal. Or the funeral procession, of Miss Americ-stamp
The Stamp Act is put to rest in a funeral procession on a London quay. George Grenville carries the coffin and Lord Bute follows as chief mourner. This was a very popular print, frequently copied, and this vers... More
The repeal, or the funeral of Miss Ame- stamp
The Stamp Act is put to rest in a funeral procession on a London quay. George Grenville carries the coffin and Lord Bute follows as chief mourner. This was a very popular print, frequently copied. Dorothy Georg... More
Magna Britania her colonies reduc'd.
Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The Premier distributing the loaves and fishes to the labourers in His...
Lord North on stilts supported by Mansfield and Bute distributes spoils like tithes and pensions to an unruly mob of supporters. Courtesy of Boston Public Library