Room 111

William Hogarth

1697–1764, England (London), Rococo and satire

Hogarth invented the painted and engraved picture story: in series such as “Industry and Idleness” he tells, scene by scene, of his characters’ rise and fall. He showed London as it was – election feasts, fairs, sleeping churchgoers, vain wigs – and was one of the first to fight for artists’ copyright.

All works

• A Scene from “The Beggar’s Opera”
• Evening
• Noon
• The Five Orders of Perriwigs as They Were Worn at the Late Coronation, Measured Architectonically
• The Bench
• The Industrious ’Prentice Lord Mayor of London
• Characters and Caricaturas
• The Stage-Coach, or the Country Inn Yard
• Simon Lord Lovat
• The Bruiser
• The Company of Undertakers
• Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn
• The Industrious ’Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought before Him and Impeached by His Accomplice
• An Election Entertainment
• The Fellow ’Prentices at Their Looms
• The Industrious ’Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian
• The Industrious ’Prentice a Favourite, and Entrusted by His Master
• The Industrious ’Prentice out of His Time, and Married to His Master’s Daughter
• The Industrious ’Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London
• Southwark Fair
• The Idle ’Prentice Turned Away, and Sent to Sea
• John Wilkes, Esq.
• Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court
• The Idle ’Prentice at Play in the Churchyard during Divine Service
• The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1
• Self-Portrait (Gulielmus Hogarth)
• Hudibras and the Lawyer
• Night
• The Lottery
• Time Smoking a Picture
• The Sleeping Congregation
• The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 2
• Paul before Felix