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William Hogarth

1697–1764 · British

Born
1697 · London
Died
1764 · London

385 works in the Collect24 Registry

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William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist, and writer whose work includes realistic portraiture and comic strip-like series. He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode.

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William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Hogarth was born in the City of London into a lower-middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver, but did not complete the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of payment of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William's paintings and prints with a hard edge. Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read."

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William Hogarth, Before

William Hogarth

Before, 1730–1731

Oil on canvas

40 × 33.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-137002

William Hogarth, After

William Hogarth

After, 1730–1731

Oil on canvas

39.4 × 33.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-132637

William Hogarth, Issued Barley Instead of Wheat [first version] (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)

William Hogarth

Issued Barley Instead of Wheat [first version] (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725), after 1725

Etching

4.4 × 7.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-361023

William Hogarth, Trade card of Mary & Ann Hogarth, the old Frock Shop

William Hogarth

Trade card of Mary & Ann Hogarth, the old Frock Shop, ca. 1730

Etching

17.2 × 12.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-442920

William Hogarth, Fodina ferrea Danmorensis – A Danish Iron Mine (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 35)

William Hogarth

Fodina ferrea Danmorensis – A Danish Iron Mine (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. II, pl. 35), 1723–24

Etching and engraving; first state of two

25.8 × 34.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-442635

William Hogarth, Sarah Malcolm

William Hogarth

Sarah Malcolm, late 18th–19th century

Engraving and stipple

22.7 × 22.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1139033

William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, Plate 8

William Hogarth

A Rake's Progress, Plate 8, [June 25, 1735] reissued 1763

Etching and engraving; third state of three (retouched 1763)

35.4 × 40.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-456491

William Hogarth, Sheet of Studies of Heads

William Hogarth

Sheet of Studies of Heads, ca. 1795

Red chalk

22.8 × 35.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-938554

William Hogarth, Night: The Four Times of Day

William Hogarth

Night: The Four Times of Day, March 25, 1738

Etching and engraving; first state of two

48.7 × 40.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-455031

William Hogarth, The Times, Plate 1

William Hogarth

The Times, Plate 1, September 1762

Etching and engraving; third state of three

24.3 × 30.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-455039

William Hogarth, Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

William Hogarth

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn, May 1738

Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

45 × 57 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-455028

William Hogarth, The South Sea Scheme

William Hogarth

The South Sea Scheme, 1722

Etching and engraving; seventh state of seven

26.1 × 32.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-455022

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