William Hogarth - Cruelty in perfection
A suburban or country churchyard where Tom Nero has been arrested for the murder; the body of his lover, Ann Gill, its throat cut, lies on the ground with the bundle of plate she has stolen from her mistress at... More
William Hogarth - The South Sea scheme
Print shows Fortune, Honesty, and Honor being mutilated and beaten amid a crowd of unfortunate investors in the South Sea investment scandal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Evening - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene at Sadler's Wells Theater with a dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River. The wife holds a fan with a design of Venus and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older ... More
Paul before Felix, burlesqued - Public domain scan / engraving
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 funeral of Chrysostom
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. This print illustrates the scene w... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 2
A lavishly furnished bedroom. Moll distracts her wealthy protector by exposing a breast and at the same time tipping over a tea-table so that her lover can slip quietly out of the room. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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 times, pl. 1
A city on fire, emblematic of the Seven Years War and George III's efforts to bring about peace. In the center, a fire-engine on which stands a man with a badge lettered "GR" aiming his hose at a shop-sign of t... 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
Benjamin Smith - William Hogarth
A self portrait of the artist with his pug, Trump. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Credulity, superstition, and fanaticism
Interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners. Reworked from an earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated." (Paulson 210), Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Pl. 11. The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn
The place of execution. In the middle ground, Idle seated in a cart with his coffin and John Wesley exhorting him to repent. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Sullivan's Paul before Felix
Paul before Felix, showing St. Paul on trial before Felix, governor of Caesarea. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 5
A squalid room where Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman calls for attention for the invalid, another wom... More
William Hogarth - Analysis of beauty, pl. 2
One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty." A ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border a... 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 - Freeing of the galley slaves
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. Don Quixote is freeing convicts in... More
William Hogarth - Moses brought to Pharaoh's daughter
The child Moses given up by his mother (who has been acting as wet nurse) to the daughter of Pharaoh. To right, the mother/nurse is being paid by a steward. To left, two female attendants, one black and one whi... More
Don Quixote and the Knight of the Rock
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. Chance directs Don Quixote and San... More
William Hogarth - The adventures of Mambrino's helmet
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. Don Quixote is shown at the moment... More
William Hogarth - Scholars at a lecture
Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt hats and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right. Courtesy of Boston P... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 1
A scene outside the Bell Inn; a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham). A clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a ... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 3
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane. To left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Tailpiece to the catalogue
This print was designed by Hogarth as a tailpiece to an artist's catalogue. It shows a monkey watering dead exotics of past ages, the implication being that too many works of art are thought to be "good" merely... More
William Hogarth - A harlot's progress, plate 3
A shabby room in Drury Lane. Moll is rising late, attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her... More
William Hogarth - A rake's progress, plate 3
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane. To left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - The invasion, pl. 2: England
A scene outside an English country inn (the "Duke of Cumberland") with soldiers and sailors preparing for a French invasion. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
William Hogarth - Taste in high life
This print is satirizing the clothes and behavior of fashionable society in the early 1740s. On the left is a woman with her servant, a young boy she has dressed up in a feathered turban. The woman on the right... 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 - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene near Charing Cross with le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I in the background and celebrations of the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foregrou... More
William Hogarth - The enraged musician
A scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street. A ballad-seller chants while her baby cries and a milkmaid and oth... More
William Hogarth - Night - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene near Charing Cross with le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I in the background and celebrations of the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foregrou... More
Southwark Fair (or the humours of a fair)
Fairground with attractions including theatrical booths (Ciber [sic] and Bullock's collapsing on the left, and Lee and Harper's in the center), china shop, rope dancer and rope-flyer, quack doctor, peep show, c... 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
Pl. 6. The industrious 'Prentice out of his time and married to his ma...
A wedding celebrations in Fish Street Hill with a legless ballad seller and drummers and butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers outside the house of Francis Goodchild and his bride. Courtesy of ... More
Caricature, William Hogarth - The cockpit, public domain cartoon image
Interior of the Royal Cockpit on the south side of St James's Park with two fighting cocks in the pit and spectators watching. The print pretends to be a ticket of admission to one of the fights. Courtesy of Bo... More
William Hogarth - Noon - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene in St Giles's-in-the-Fields with an elegant crowd leaving the French Huguenot church contrasted with rowdy Londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head). In the foregroun... More
William Hogarth - Noon - Engraving, Public domain image
Scene in St Giles's-in-the-Fields with an elegant crowd leaving the French Huguenot church contrasted with rowdy Londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head). In the foregroun... More
William Hogarth - Columbus breaking the egg
Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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
Pl. 3. The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard
A churchyard with Tom Idle sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a b... 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 - 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 - The times, pl. 2
The water used to put out the fire in The Times, pl. 1 is turned to peaceful uses and the firefighters are transformed into gardeners. This print is based on the ancient metaphor of the king as Fountain of Hono... More
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
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin - Public domain portrait engraving
Bust-length portrait of Benjamin Franklin wearing a rust colored coat with fur collar. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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
![The Boston troops, as reviewed on President Adams's birth day [sic] on the Common by his Honr. Lieut. Governor Gill & Major Genl. Elliot, under the command of Brigadier Genl. Winslow. Also a view of the new State House](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDMvMDEvMDEvdGhlLWJvc3Rvbi10cm9vcHMtYXMtcmV2aWV3ZWQtb24tcHJlc2lkZW50LWFkYW1zcy1iaXJ0aC1kYXktc2ljLW9uLXRoZS1jb21tb24tMjdlMGQxLTEwMjQuanBn/40/38/webp "The Boston troops, as reviewed on President Adams's birth day [sic] on the Common by his Honr. Lieut. Governor Gill & Major Genl. Elliot, under the command of Brigadier Genl. Winslow. Also a view of the new State House")
The Boston troops, as reviewed on President Adams's birth day [sic] on...
Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description
A prospective view of part of the Commons
Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description
Feeding the hungry, 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
Inscribing a tombstone, 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
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
A south west view of the lighthouse, situate at the entrance of Boston...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
A country village : With cart and numerous figures in foreground
Public domain image of a romantic rural landscape, water, 16th, 17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18t... More
To the merchants of Boston this view of the light house is most humbly...
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
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
The laughing audience (or a pleased audience)
This print as originally made as a subscription ticket for "A Rake's Progress" and "Southwark Fair." An audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously. Above them in a box, tw... More
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 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 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 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
Hancock House Boston, Boston Massachusetts
Public domain image of a historic building, 16th, 17th, 18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
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 - Hymen and Cupid
Hymen seated on a low, overgrown wall, holding a chord on a lute with his left hand, a torch in his right hand. Cupid leaning over to pluck the lute's strings, his bow and quiver on the ground; in the distance ... 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
Rendering of Boston and waterfront
Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
A south east view of the great town of Boston in New England America
Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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