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  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • An election banquet. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1755.
  • Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (1667-1747), counting off the clans that fought for the Pretender. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • The distressed poet is visited in his abode by an angry milkmaid collecting outstanding money. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Scholars at a lecture. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • Sarah Mapp. Wood engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Strolling actresses dressing in a barn, a look behind the scenes of a backstage dressing room. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • Thomas Pellet. Line engraving by C. Hall after W. Hogarth.
  • Ticket of the London Hospital: Christ with his disciples, gesturing towards the sick. Steel engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Hudibras and his squire Ralpho depart on a pair of horses with two rustic peasants watching; one carries a rake and accidentally disturbs a table spilling the contents of two baskets. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel keeper, Mother Needham; in the background Colonel Francis Charteris stands at a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1732.
  • 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.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • Columbus breaking the egg; he is surrounded by five men around a dinner table with a plate of eels before them. Etching 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.
  • Trulla holding a sword stands over Hudibras and restrains a man bearing a club; Ralpho is held between two men. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • An episode in The beggar's opera: the highwayman Macheath in prison, two young women are kneeling in front of two men and begging for his release. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • A skimmington or charivari: people make noise and are violent in the street as a form of rough justice exercised by women against men; on the right Hudibras enters on horseback, and is hit in the eye by a thrown egg. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.
  • A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth, 1736.
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • Daniel Lock. Line engraving by T. Cook & Son, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
  • Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Thomas Coram. Line engraving by A. Bannerman after W. Hogarth.
  • A Greek patriarchal tiara in the shape of an imperial crown from the collection of John Talman. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.