This is a list of works by William Hogarth by publication date (if known).
As a printmaker Hogarth often employed other engravers to produce his work and frequently revised his works between one print run and the next, so it is often difficult to accurately differentiate between works by (or for) Hogarth and those in the style of or "after". Some of the less likely, possible, doubtful works and those formerly identified as Hogarth's works are listed at the end. Numbers in square brackets refer to the catalogue numbers in Ronald Paulson's third edition of Hogarth's Graphic Works (those with asterisks are classified as "After Hogarth" by Paulson).
The works are all paintings, prints or drawings, apart from Hogarth's 1753 book The Analysis of Beauty.
1720s Tatton Coat of Arms (early) Benefit ticket for Spiller (1720?) Shop card (1720)—advertising Hogarth's own engraving shop Shop card for Hardy (early) Funeral ticket () Shop card for Ellis Gamble (c.1723 or 1728) Impression from a tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club (early) Kendal Arms (1723 or later) [26 (27)] Self-portrait with two figures and two cupids (1720) Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme / The South Sea Scheme (c.1721) Fifteen illustrations for Aubrey De La Montraye's Travels (1723) [28–42] Seven small prints for Apuleius's Golden Ass (1724) The Lottery (1724) The Mystery of Masonry brought to Light by ye Gormogons (1724) The Bad Taste of the Town / The Taste of the Town / Masquerades and Operas (1724) - Hogarth's first attempt to publish his own satirical print, an attempt frustrated by the printmakers' monopoly Seven illustrations for Gildon's New Metamorphosis (1723) [45–51] A Just View of the British Stage (1724) Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law / Some of the Principal Inhabitants of the Moon (c.1724–25) Five illustrations for La Calprenede's Cassandra (1725) [58–62] A Burlesque on Kent's Altarpiece at St. Clement Danes (1725) Two illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost (1725) [64–65] Fourteen illustrations for Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725) [66–79]Also listed as Fifteen Headpieces for Beaver's Military Punishments of the Ancients Sign for a Paviour (c.1725)Gowing p.14 The Carpenter's Yard (c.1725)Gowing p.15 The Doctor's Visit (c.1725) Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras (1726)—engraved in 1721 they were published alongside the twelve large illustration in the 1726 edition [5–21]
Twelve illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras (1726) [82–93] Sancho's Feast (possibly before the illustrations of Don Quixote, probably before 1733) Six illustrations for Cervantes’ Don Quixote (c.1726) [94–99] Frontispiece for Terrae-Filius (1726) Twenty-six figures (on two plates) for Blackwell's Compendium of Military Discipline (1726) [102,103] Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton (1726) Cunicularii / The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation (1726) - a satire on the "learned" doctors taken in by Mary Toft, a subject revisited in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver (1726) A Garret Scene (c.1726) Shop card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse (unknown) His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales (before 1727) Masquerade Ticket (1727) Frontispiece to Leveridge's Collection of Songs Frontispiece to Cooke's Hesiod (1727) The Carpenter's Yard (1727?) Music Introduced To Apollo By Minerva (1727?) Benefit ticket for Milward (1728) Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn (1728–29) The Great Seal of England (1728–29) Two illustrations for Theobald's Perseus and Andromeda (1729) [115,116]
1730s Shop card for Mary and Ann Hogarth (1730) Bookplate for George Lambert (1730?) Paulet book plate (unknown) The Beggar's Opera (various versions between 1728 and 1731, all showing a scene from Act III; Scene xi)Gowing p.27 The Beggar's Opera I (c.1728) The Beggar's Opera II (1728) The Beggar's Opera III The Beggar's Opera IV (c.1728) The Beggar's Opera V The Beggar's Opera VI (1729–31)Only four of these are now considered autograph. i.e. those respectively in the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe collection, UK; Birmingham City Art Gallery, UK; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States; and Tate Britain, London, UK. See Simon, Hogarth, France and British Art pp.257ff. An Assembly at Wanstead House (1728–31)Hallett p.98 The Denunciation (1729)Gowing p.18 Woodes Rogers and his Family (1729)Hallett p.96 The Wedding of Stephen Bechingham and Mary Cox (1729–30)Gowing p.19 Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons / The Committee of the House of Commons (1729) The Christening / Orator Henley Christening A Child (c.1729) Debates on Palmistry (c.1729) Falstaff Examining His Recruits (1730)—the oldest known painting of a scene from ShakespeareGowing puts it as 1728 The Wollaston Family (1730)Gowing p.20 The House of Cards (1730)—two scenes of children playing sometimes paired.Gowing p.22 The House of Cards A Children's Party The Ashley and Popple Family (1730)The Royal Collection Boys Peeping at Nature (1730)—subscription ticket for A Harlot's Progress, modified and reused as subscription ticket for Paul Before Felix and Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's Daughter in 1751 The Jones Family ()Hallett p.102 An Auction of Pictures (c.1730) A Fishing Party / A Fair Angler (c.1730)Dulwich Picture Gallery Conversation Piece (Portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine with Other Men and Women) / The Fountaine Family (c.1730-1735)Hallett p.104Gowing puts it c.1730–32 A Scene from "The Tempest" (c.1730–1735)Hallett p.202 Before and After—a comic view of the differing attitudes of men and women to love making. Various versions:Gowing p.29 Before and After oil-on-canvas, exterior scene (1730–31) Before and After oil-on-canvas, interior scene (1730–31) Before and After engraving, interior scene (1736) [141,142] Ashley Cowper with his Wife and Daughter (1731) The Theft of a Watch (1731)Gowing puts it c.1727 The Family of George II The Royal Family (1731–32)The Royal CollectionGowing puts it 1732–33 The Royal Family II (1732–33)Gowing p.25 A Harlot's Progress (1732)—six pictures showing the path of a pretty country girl lured into a life of prostitution [121–126] Plate 1 (Ensnared by a Procuress)Names used in the Gowing catalogue of the Tate 1972 exhibition p.31 Plate 2 (Quarrels with her Jew Protector) Plate 3 (Apprehended by a Magistrate) Plate 4 (Scene in Bridewell) Plate 5 (Expires while the Doctors are Disputing) Plate 6 (The Funeral) A Chorus of Singers / The Chorus / Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith—subscription ticket for Midnight Modern Conversation (1732) A Midnight Modern Conversation painting and print (1732) The Cholmondeley Family (1732)Hallett p.106 A Performance of "The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards" (1732-1735)Hallett p.108 Sarah Malcolm / Sarah Malcolm in Prison (1732) H.R.H. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (c.1732) The Marriage Contract (c.1732)—a study for A Rake's Progress this was likely to have been intended as the second sceneGowing p.32 Gerard Anne Edwards in His Cradle (1733) A Laughing Audience / A Pleased Audience (1733) — subscription ticket for A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress: paintings (1732–33); prints (1735) — a series of eight scenes depicting the dissolute life of a young heir and his descent into poverty and madness [132–139] The Heir The Levee The Orgy The Arrest The Marriage The Gaming House The Prison The Madhouse Southwark Fair (1733)—issued with A Rake's Progress The Edwards Family (1733–34) The Distrest Poet (c.1733-36) painting (1737) print—issued with Scholars at a Lecture and The Company of Undertakers (1740) print—issued together with The Enraged Musician The Pool of Bethesda (c.1735) Satan, Sin and Death (1735–40)Hallett p.200 Self Portrait (c.1735-40) Thomas Pellett, M.D. (c. 1735-39) The Sleeping Congregation painting (1728)Gowing p.17 print (1736) Scholars at a Lecture (1736) The Company of Undertakers (1736) Three Ladies in a Grand Interior/ The Broken Fan / possibly Catherine Darnley, Duchess of Buckingham with Two Ladies (c.1736)Gowing puts it c.1730 Woman Swearing A Child To A Grave Citizen—print engraved by Joseph Symons c. 1736Paulson p.107 The Good Samaritan (1737) Four Times of the Day paintings (1736) prints (1738)—four comic views of life in London [146–149] Morning Noon Evening Night Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738)—issued with Four Times of the Day, the original painting was destroyed in a fire in 1874 Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester (1738)—a later portrait was produced in 1741 The Strode Family (c.1738-42)Hallett p.110 The Western Family (1738)Hallett p.112 George Arnold (c.1738-1740)Hallett p.166 Francis Arnold (c.1738-1740) James Quin, Actor (1739) Charity in the Cellar (c.1739)Gowing p.38
1740s
Hymen and Cupid (1740) Captain Thomas Coram (1740)Hallett p.162 William Jones (1740)Hallett p.164 Lord Grey and Lady Mary West as Children (1740) Ticket for Tiverton (Blundell's) School Feast (1740)"Ticket for Tiverton School Feast, 1740" engraved after William Hogarth, published in The Works of William Hogarth, 1833 Head of a Lady, called Lady Pembroke (c.1740) The Hervey Conversation Piece / Lord Hervey and His Friends (c.1740)Hallett p.114 The Shrimp Girl (c.1740–45)—unfinishedHallett p.126 Lavinia Fenton, Duchess of Bolton (c. 1740–50)Hallett p.168 Mrs Salter (1741 or 1744)Hallett p.169 Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester (1741)Hallett p.172 William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, Later 4th Duke of Devonshire (1741) The Enraged Musician (1741) The Charmers of the Age (1741) Taste in High Life (c.1742)Hallett p.144 Martin Folkes (1742) The Graham Children (1742)Hallett p.176 The Mackinen Children (1742–43)Hallett p.178 Miss Mary Edwards (1742) Characters and Caricaturas (1743)—subscription ticket for Marriage à-la-mode
Marriage à-la-mode paintings (1743–45) prints (1743)—six satirical pictures commenting on fashionable society. Commonly considered Hogarth's masterwork [158–163] The Marriage Settlement / The Marriage Contract The Tête à Tête / Shortly After the Marriage The Inspection / Visit to the Quack Doctor The Toilette / The Duchess' Morning Levee The Bagnio / The Death of the Earl The Lady's Death / The Suicide of the Duchess The Discovery (c.1743?) The Battle of the Pictures (1744)—subscription ticket for an auction of Hogarth's works Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury (1744–47)Hallett p.174 John Huggins (before 1745) Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin (c.1745)Hallett p.116 Mary Blackwood, Mrs Desaguliers (c.1745)Hallett p.170 The Happy Marriage—Hogarth planned a series with this title but never finished it, and it is uncertain as to which pictures were intended for the series but the two below are most likely. A plate of The Stay-Maker is claimed to have been producedTateHallett p.153 The Stay-Maker / The Happy Marriage V: The Fitting of the Ball Gown (c.1745) The Dance / The Happy Marriage VI: The Country Dance (c.1745) The Painter and his Pug / Self-Portrait with Pug-Dog / Gulielmus Hogarth painting (1745) print (1748) Mask and Palette (1745)—subscription ticket for David Garrick in the Character of Richard III David Garrick in the Character of Richard III painting (1745) print (1746) Simon Lord Lovat (1746) The Stage-Coach, Or The Country Inn Yard (1747) Industry and Idleness (1747)—a series of twelve pictures showing the divergent courses of the lives of two apprentices. The industrious apprentice becomes Lord Mayor of London while the idle apprentice ends his life at the gallows. [168–179] The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a Christian The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service The Industrious 'Prentice a Favourite, and entrusted by his Master The Idle 'Prentice turn'd away, and sent to Sea The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter