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

Hogarth’s 12 prints illustrating Samuel Butler’s poem Hudibras, were among his favourite works. Although a little more obscure than some of his works, they represent an important stage in his development; Butler’s comic narrative was the perfect subject for Hogarth to develop his gift for social ...

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 54 / 14 x 21½

Coaching. Very lively scene depicting the coaches and hustle and bustle.

Dimensions (W x H): 32.5 x 27.4 / 13 x 11

A handsome pair of prints, showing before and after scenes of a seduction.‘ ... Said to have been commissioned by "a certain vicious nobleman", the pictures contain an element of moralising in that the man in After looks somewhat dazed and unhappy despite his lustful conquest. Hogarth listened to ...

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 43 / 13 x 17

This print shows a despairing writer at his desk in his flat writing for ‘Grub Street’. The print is possibly about Hogarth’s father, who became a hackwriter before being imprisoned for debt. Below the print are four lines from Pope’s Dunciad.

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 36 / 16 x 14

This print shows a pregnant woman pleading with a seated judge for the ‘rich old lecher’ at the centre of the print to provide security for her child. Twelve lines of text below the print explain the scene. The print was not published in Hogarth’s lifetime.

Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 30.5 / 14½ x 12

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

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

Thomas Bambridge was a warder at the Fleet prison who was tried for cruelty to prisoners. In this print, a pitiable prisoner kneels in front of a committee of bewigged gentlemen. Bambridge is to the left of the print. Hogarth’s father was imprisoned in the Fleet prison for debt, which made him ...

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

Thomas Bambridge was a warder at the Fleet prison who was tried for cruelty to prisoners. In this print, a pitiable prisoner kneels in front of a committee of bewigged gentlemen. Bambridge is to the left of the print. Hogarth’s father was imprisoned in the Fleet prison for debt, which made him ...

Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 42 / 22 x 16½

Price is for the pair.

Dimensions (W x H): 48 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

3 plates.

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

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

This famous print shows Henry the VIII talking at court to Anne Boleyn, with a slightly despairing Cardinal Wolsey at right of picture. It is thought that the print was Hogarth’s comment on the relationship of the Prince of Wales with Harriet Vane. The painting on which this print is based was ...

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 48 / 13 x 19

This magnificent print shows a chaotic street scene with the bleary-eyed King’s Guards being rounded up after nights of debauchery, in September 1745. They are about to defend Londond from Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Dimensions (W x H): 54 x 41 / 21½ x 16

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

This magnificent print shows the famous actor, David Garrick acting Richard the Third, the role that made him famous. He is pictured here in the famous tent scene before the Battle of Bosworth, haunted by the ghosts of all those he had murdered. His body is sprawled out along a serpentine curve, a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 40 / 21 x 15½

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 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

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

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

This magnificent print shows a troop of actresses preparing for their last performance. The print was Hogarth’s comment on the closing down of all theatres in 1737.

Dimensions (W x H): 53.5 x 40.5 / 21 x 16

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

Taste in High Life is based upon a 1742 painting by William Hogarth. In the early 1800's Boydell acquired Hogarth's original engraved plates and printed a posthumous edition from them. He also commissioned artists to engrave several further plates after Hogarth's most famous paintings.Taste in ...

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 47.3 / 25 x 18½

'I now offer to the public a short essay, accompanied with two explanatory prints, in which I shall endeavour to shew what the principles are in nature, by which we are directed to call the forms of some bodies beautiful, others ugly'.This is the opening sentence on William Hogarth's essay on ...

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

'I now offer to the public a short essay, accompanied with two explanatory prints, in which I shall endeavour to shew what the principles are in nature, by which we are directed to call the forms of some bodies beautiful, others ugly'.This is the opening sentence on William Hogarth's essay on ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15

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

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

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

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): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½

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 eight scenes tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father. It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730).In an advertisement ...

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

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

This engraving depicts a fully robed Judge at his desk surrounded by lawyers and maidens one prominently pregnant and a child playing with a dog. Extended rhyming ditty at base : 'Here Justice triumphs in his Elbow Chair . . . His Office Shelves and Parish Laws are graced. . . '

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

Spectacular view of mid-nineteenth century Istanbul, from Galata looking across to the Seraglio Point and the centre of the city, with Scutari beyond, and the Bridge of Boats in the lower right. Sailing ships and paddle steamers are shown in the Golden Horn. A rare and splendid lithograph engraved ...

Dimensions (W x H): 68.5 x 41 / 27 x 16