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  • Wrapped in "sweating" blankets and close to the fire, Moll Hackabout nears death as the doctors argue over her illness. Engraving after William Hogarth.
  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the pool of Bethesda, used as a ticket. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
  • Sarah Malcolm in Newgate Prison shortly before her execution. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.
  • Hogarth painting the comic muse. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • A young man with an exhausted expression after sex pulls on his breeches beside a woman who gazes up at him and holds his arm; on the wall is an image of Cupid pointing to a downward-pointing rocket. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1736.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.
  • The inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the unseen play. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate II.
  • Moll Hackabout, the mistress of a wealthy Jewish merchant, in a richly decorated apartment room, kicks over a tea table as her young lover tip-toes out aided by a manservant. Engraving after William Hogarth.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Thomas Coram, seated at his desk, with a globe on the floor. Engraving by J. Mills after W. Hogarth.
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.
  • Satire on false perspective: a landscape with absurd situations due to incorrect perspective. Aquatint by Le Coeur after W. Hogarth.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.
  • The interior of a salon with fashionable people in hoop skirts and corsets, and in which even the servant and the dog are dressed up; satire of contemporary fashion. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after W. Hogarth.
  • Thomas Coram. Line engraving by A. Dutillois after W. Hogarth.
  • Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Steel engraving by H. Setchell after W. Hogarth.
  • Hymen and Cupid. Steel engraving by E. Chavane after W. Hogarth.
  • Men playing draughts in Button's Coffee-House, London, ca. 1720. Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • William Hogarth making a drawing of his companions and himself as they shave and take their breakfast. Etching by Richard Livesay, 1781, after William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • A skeleton wrestling with a man, the man seems to be winning. Engraving by R. Livesay after W. Hogarth.
  • A young woman with a moon-shaped head-band (Diana). Etching by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
  • Thomas Coram. Line engraving by N. Parr, 1749, after W. Hogarth.