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  • Example of Roman military punishment: Banishment
  • Example of Recipitation, or throwing headlong, over a cliff and crusification, Roman military punishments for disertion
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate II.
  • Hogarth painting the comic muse. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.
  • James Figg the pugilist on stage holding his sword. Etching..
  • In a lady's bedchamber a young woman struggles as a man pulls her towards him clutching at her dress. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • The battle of the pictures: between an auction house and Hogarth's studio, old master paintings are lined up in ranks outnumbering and attacking Hogarth's contemporary counterparts. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • Four judges in heavy wigs, two of them are fast asleep. Etching by W. Hogarth.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Richard Mead. Reproduction of drawing, 1888, after W. Hogarth.
  • 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, 1735.
  • A coach stopping in the courtyard of John Shaw's "Ram Inn" in Cirencester. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • A choir of men and boys rehearsing a performance of an oratorio. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736.
  • Dr. Ranby's house in Chiswick. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • An episode from a farce in the theatre: three men and two women engaged in a dispute with one man pointing at the guilty-looking young woman at the front. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • 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.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Engraving after W. Hogarth, 1736.
  • 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 W. Hogarth, 1741.
  • A man in a cap. Etching after Hogarth.
  • The punishment of being issued barley instead of wheat. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1725.