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): Size: 41.5 x 35.5 cm. (16½ x 14 inches) x / x

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): Size: 35 x 26.5 cm. (14 x 10½ inches) x / x

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): Size: 64 x 48 cm. (25 x 19 inches) x / x

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): Size: 35.5 x 54.5 cm. (14 x 21½ inches) x / x

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): Size: 36 x 54.5 cm. (14 x 21½ inches) x / x

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): Size: 49 x 64 cm. (19½ x 25 inches) x / x

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): Size: 64 x 49 cm. (25 x 19½ inches) x / x

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

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 64 x 49 cm. (25 x 19½ inches) x / x

Two plates from The Works of William Hogarth. Original Plates restored by James Heath, &c. Heath was the last printer to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 38.5 x 61.5 cm. (15 x 24 inches) x / x

2 plates. Inscription beneath image - With lanthern jaws, and croaking Gut,See how the half-starved Frenchmen strut,And call us English Dogs!But soon we'll teach these bragging FoesThat Beef & Beer give heavier Blows,Than Soup & Roasted Frogs.The Priests inflam'd with righteous hopes,Prepare ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 39 x 32 cm. (15½ x 12½ inches) x / x

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 49 x 64 cm. (19½ x 25 inches) x / x

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

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 32.5 x 43 cm. (13 x 17 inches) x / x

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

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 47 x 37 cm. (18½ x 14½ inches) x / x

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): Size: 49 x 64 cm. (19½ x 25 inches) x / x

Three print on one plate. The South Sea print by Hogarth was an allegorical attack on a wave of disastrous financial speculation that had just swept England. The Laughing Audience was originally created as a subscription ticket to the large William Hogarth engraving, Southwark Fair and to his ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 34 x 46 cm. (13½ x 18 inches) x / x

Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism explores the ever dangerous world of fundamentalist religion. Presiding from a great height a preacher-performer terrorizes his congregation with a pair of puppets representing the devil and a witch. Beneath the title reads a verse from John. CH. 4 V. 1, ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 34.8 x 44.2 cm. (13½ x 17½ inches) x / x

An interesting scene depicting the allegorical version of the trial against the apostle Paul before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 36.8 x 27.3 cm. (14½ x 10½ inches) x / x

An interesting scene depicting the trial against the apostle Paul before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea. From the original painting in Lincolns Inn Hall painted by W. Hogarth.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 54 x 42.4 cm. (21½ x 16½ inches) x / x

The Beggar’s Opera is a scene from John Gay’s popular farce, which emphasized Hogarth’s prevailing interests: his involvement with the theatre and with down-to-earth, comic subjects. A Just View of the British Stage or Three Heads are Better than One is a satirical view of the management of British ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 28 x 47.5 cm. (11 x 18½ inches) x / x

Two images on one plate. In The Bench Hogarth illustrates four pompous judges listening to a case in the Court of Common Pleas. Callously inattentive to the case before them, these undignified, pompous men, buried in their robes and wigs, slumber or read. Sarah Malcolm was convicted and hanged for ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 23 x 43.8 cm. (9 x 17 inches) x / x

Hogarth published a print of John Wilkes , a successful piece of propaganda, designed as a companion peace to the earlier (1746) Lord Lovat: the traitor and the demagogue. The print was the cause of more attacks in verse (Churchill's Epistle to William Hogarth ) and hostile caricatures, ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 28.5 x 38 cm. (11 x 15 inches) x / x

John Wilkes Esquire (1727-1797) was a member of Parliament and a political agitator. In 1762 he founded The North Briton, a publication that consistently attacked the government of Lord Bute, the King and the artistic work of William Hogarth. He was twice expelled from the House of Commons but was ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 23 x 35.5 cm. (9 x 14 inches) x / x

Two plates on one page. Characters Caricaturas was first created by as an elaborate subscription ticket for his famous set of engravings, Marriage a la Mode but it proved very popular in its own right .The Battle of the Pictures was originally engraved by William Hogarth as a bidder's ticket for ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 64 x 49 cm. (25 x 19½ inches) x / x

In its primary theme Industry and Idleness, is William Hogarth's most direct moral statement in series form. Its primary purpose is to illustrate the benefits of sincere and honest work and the ruinous path awaiting those who follow the opposite course. To this end Hogarth portrays the progress of ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 42 x 28.5 cm. (16½ x 11 inches) x / x

In its primary theme Industry and Idleness, is William Hogarth's most direct moral statement in series form. Its primary purpose is to illustrate the benefits of sincere and honest work and the ruinous path awaiting those who follow the opposite course. To this end Hogarth portrays the progress of ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 42 x 28.5 cm. (16½ x 11 inches) x / x

In its primary theme Industry and Idleness, is William Hogarth's most direct moral statement in series form. Its primary purpose is to illustrate the benefits of sincere and honest work and the ruinous path awaiting those who follow the opposite course. To this end Hogarth portrays the progress of ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 42 x 28.5 cm. (16½ x 11 inches) x / x

The Lottery is Hogarth's companion piece to The South Sea Scheme. Here he criticizes the government for raising money by lottery. The curtains create the effect of a stage upon which allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a dumb-show

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 35 x 27 cm. (14 x 10½ inches) x / x

Three prints on one plate. Hogarth's treatment of the Sleeping Congregation , the torpor caused by a country parson's sermon, foreshadows Rowlandson's satirical device of bringing together different types of individuals at a ludicrous social occasion. Columbus Breaking the Egg depicts an apocryphal ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 41 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 inches) x / x

Two prints on one plate. The Times contains some of Hogarth’s most pessimistic imagery upon the political machinations and corruptions of the day. A Country Inn Yard is one of Hogarth’s notable engravings of the 1740s.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 31.9 x 48.4 cm. (12½ x 19 inches) x / x

These prints contain some of his most pessimistic imagery upon the political machinations and corruptions of the day. Plate Two was suppressed by William Hogarth, and then his widow, and was not published until 1790 when John Boydell printed the plate for his set of original Hogarth engravings.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 31 x 50.5 cm. (12 x 20 inches) x / x

These two prints, on one sheet, were produced for the artists catalogue of the Society of Artists exhibition in Spring Garden, Charing Cross, May 1761. On the lower image, produced as the tailpiece, the motif is intended as a satirical contrast to the frontispiece, which shows Britannia and George ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 21.5 x 38 cm. (8½ x 15 inches) x / x

Hogarth etched Lovat's portrait at an inn in St. Albans on his way to trail and eventual execution. Knowing what awaits him, Lovat is busy at work upon his memoirs.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 28.5 x 38 cm. (11 x 15 inches) x / x

Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington comes from Hogarth’s “Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras”. A 'Skimmington' was an old custom in rural England and Scotland directed at either nagging wives or unfaithful husbands. An unruly procession was formed for the purpose of ridiculing the offender.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 51.2 x 29 cm. (20 x 11½ inches) x / x

Sancho is playing the part of the King attended by his Doctor and an array of characters include a priest, the village fool, a black servant, a buxom maid, ladies in waiting and being served by young waiters. Musicians are playing stringed instruments in the background. The print is cleverly ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 33 x 30 cm. (13 x 12 inches) x / x

This engraving was originally commissioned and published in 1782 by Hogarth's widow, Mrs. Jane Hogarth. This particular impression is from the 1822 Heath edition, which also contained the final publication of Hogarth's original engravings and etchings.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 20.5 x 27 cm. (8 x 10½ inches) x / x

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

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 46 x 64 cm. (18 x 25 inches) x / x

Hogarth used this particular self-portrait as the frontispiece of his collected engravings, published in 1764.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 36 x 41 cm. (14 x 16 inches) x / x

In the Idle’Prentice, Tom Idle has neglected participation at the service in favour of gambling in the graveyard beside the church. The game actually takes place upon a grave and under Tom's reclining form the words, 'Here', 'Body' and 'Of', are visible. Thus the Idle Apprentice may very well be ...

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 36.2 x 28.2 cm. (14½ x 11 inches) x / x

Two pints on one page.

Dimensions (W x H): 20 x 48.5 cm. (8 x 19 inches) x / x

In The Bench, Hogarth illustrates four pompous judges listening to a case in the Court of Common Pleas. Callously inattentive to the case before them, these undignified, pompous men, buried in their robes and wigs, slumber or read.

Dimensions (W x H): Size: 22.6 x 20 cm. (9 x 8 inches) x / x