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  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Saint Paul: with his hands in chains, he pleads his case at Caesarea before the Roman procurator of Judea, Antonius Felix. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1752.
  • A man in a cap. Etching after Hogarth.
  • The punishment of being issued barley instead of wheat. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1725.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Moll Hackabout dangles a watch and a poxed maid ("bunter") empties a jug while Sir John Gonson, a magistrate, and a group of bailiffs enter the room to arrest her. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Two men are working at looms as a man with a large stick looks around the door to see if they are working. Engraving by William Hogarth after himself.
  • The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • 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 chorus of singers rehearsing William Huggins' oratorio "Judith". Etching by W. Hogarth, 1732.
  • Two men wearing masks club Hudibras, as Ralphos, removing his mask, and a widow (dressed in black), watch from a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • 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 sleepy congregation in a country church with one clergyman reading the serman with the aid of a magnifying glass and the other ogling a sleeping woman. Engraving by 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 old woman soothes a wound on Don Quixote's back. Engraving by William 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 after himself, 1735.
  • Tom Nero, a hackney coach driver, beats with sadistic cruelty a disabled horse; a herdsman cudgels a sheep and a sleeping drayman runs over a boy with a hoop. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
  • A night scene with Tom Nero apprehended in a church-yard before the murdered body of a pregnant maidservant. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
  • Moll Hackabout dangles a watch and a poxed maid ("bunter") empties the contents of a jug, while Sir John Gonson, a magistrate, and a group of bailiffs enter the room to arrest her. Engraving after William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Men are gathered around in a circle watching two cocks fight one another. Wood engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Monument with a portrait of Samuel Butler; a youth sculpts a relief as a satyr holds Butler's book Hudibras towards him while Britannia looks at her reflection in a mirror. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth.
  • 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 maidservant. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A street scene in which a dog is maltreated; a young man intervenes by offering his food to the miscreants. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.
  • A coffin containing the body of Moll Hackabout surrounded by a parson among other so-called mourners. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel keeper, Mother Needham; in the background Colonel Francis Charteris stands at a doorway. Engraving after William Hogarth.