The four plates in this set depict four stages of the election of a country MP. Plate 1, An Election Entertainment’, shows a drunken pre-election party. Plate 2, ‘Canvassing for votes’, shows canvassing in the street. Plate 3,’ The Polling’, shows chaotic scenes at the poll, and plate 4, ‘Chairing ...

Dimensions (W x H): 54 x 40.5 / 21½ x 16

This famous set of eight prints shows the slow decline of a young man falling prey to the corrupting effects of eighteenth-century consumerism: he spends his miserly father's fortune on art, music, whores and other gentlemanly pursuits; marries a rich older woman and gambles away her wealth; is ...

Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 35.5 / 16½ x 14

The twelve prints in this set show the the relative fortunes of two apprentices; one industrious, one idle: the industrious apprentice becomes Lord Mayor of London, the idle apprentice is executed at Tyburn. Hogarth regularly used events of his time to produce series of prints charting a story. His ...

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 29 / 14 x 11½

The four plates in this set depict four stages of the election of a country MP. Plate 1, An Election Entertainment’, shows a drunken pre-election party. Plate 2, ‘Canvassing for votes’, shows canvassing in the street. Plate 3,’ The Polling’, shows chaotic scenes at the poll, and plate 4, ‘Chairing ...

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19

Hudibras is a mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was written in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678 although an ...

Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 64 / 19 x 25

Thomas Cook engraved this after Hogarth, as illustrations in "Hogarth Restored. The Whole Works of the celebrated William Hogarth". Published in 1806. The price is for the pair.

Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 42 / 16 x 16½

Price is for the pair.

Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 64 / 19 x 25

Representing a scene in the House of Commons, the print shows portraits of Rt. Hon. Arthur Onslow (Speaker), Sir Robert Walpole ('Prime Minister'), Sidney Godolphin esq. (Father of the House), Colonel Onslow, Sir JamesThornhill, Sir Joseph Jekyll, Edward Stables esq. (Clerk to the House), and Mr. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 64 / 19½ x 25

Classical Hogarth of ladies playing cards at a table whilst a priest warms his hands by the fire and a costumed two faced lady speaks to gentlemen on either side. Mask in hand, new arrivals are welcomed..

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½

Classical Hogarth satirical and critical depiction of a group of man drinking, surrounded by bottles and implements.

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½

Southwark Fair was the second most renowned, or perhaps notorious, in London, after Bartholomew Fair. Held in September it started as a market and became increasingly a place of entertainment. In 1762 it was abolished as the so-called theatres and drinking dens had become centres of vice, and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½

The scene in this mock ticket is set in the Royal Cockpit in Birdcage Walk near St James’s Park. Cockfighting was a popular sport enjoyed by men from all levels of society. In the centre the figure of the blind Lord Albermarle Bertie presides over the fight, taking bets.

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19

This print commemorates Hogarth’s arrest by the French when he sketched the gate of Calais in 1748. The print shows various impoverished French men gloating over a huge slab of British beef, in front of the Gate of Calais, bound for a local hotel.‘a classic distillation of contemporary British ...

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19

This print commemorates Hogarth’s arrest by the French when he sketched the gate of Calais in 1748. The print shows various impoverished French men gloating over a huge slab of British beef, in front of the Gate of Calais, bound for a local hotel.‘a classic distillation of contemporary British ...

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19

The Politician is based upon one of William Hogarth's sketches. It was first published in 1775 by his widow, Mrs. Jane Hogarth. This impression originates from the Heath edition, published in 1822. It is reported that the subject of this satirical etching is Hogarth's shortsighted friend, Ebenezer ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 64 / 19½ x 25

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 64 / 19½ x 25

Martin Folkes, (1690-1754), English antiquary, President of the Royal Society from 1741, replacing Sir Hans Sloane.

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 64 / 18 x 25

Dimensions (W x H): 55 x 39 / 21½ x 15½