This is a list of works by William Hogarth by publication date. 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 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. The works are all paintings, prints or drawings, apart from Hogarth's 1753 book The Analysis of Beauty.
1720s
Tatton Coat of Arms
Benefit ticket for Spiller
Shop card —advertising Hogarth's own engraving shop
Shop card for Hardy
Funeral ticket
Shop card for Ellis Gamble
Impression from a tankard belonging to the Clare Market Artists Club
Kendal Arms
Self-portrait with two figures and two cupids
Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme / The South Sea Scheme
Fifteen illustrations for Aubrey De La Montraye's Travels
The Bad Taste of the Town / The Taste of the Town / Masquerades and Operas - Hogarth's first attempt to publish his own satirical print, an attempt frustrated by the printmakers' monopoly
Seven illustrations for Gildon's New Metamorphosis
A Just View of the British Stage
Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law / Some of the Principal Inhabitants of the Moon
Five illustrations for La Calprenede's Cassandra
A Burlesque on Kent's Altarpiece at St. Clement Danes
Two illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost
Fourteen illustrations for Beaver's Roman Military Punishments
Sign for a Paviour
The Carpenter's Yard
The Doctor's Visit
Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras —engraved in 1721 they were published alongside the twelve large illustration in the 1726 edition
Sallying Forth, one of 12 illustrations for the 1726 edition.
Cunicularii / The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation - a satire on the "learned" doctors taken in by Mary Toft, a subject revisited in Credulity, Superstition, and FanaticismThe Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel GulliverA Garret Scene
Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons / The Committee of the House of Commons
The Christening / Orator Henley Christening A Child
Debates on Palmistry
Falstaff Examining His Recruits —the oldest known painting of a scene from Shakespeare
The Wollaston Family
The House of Cards —two scenes of children playing sometimes paired.
*The House of Cards
*A Children's Party
The Ashley and Popple Family
Boys Peeping at Nature —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
An Auction of Pictures
A Fishing Party / A Fair Angler
Conversation Piece / The Fountaine Family
A Scene from "The Tempest"
Before and After—a comic view of the differing attitudes of men and women to love making. Various versions:
Characters and Caricaturas —subscription ticket for Marriage à-la-mode
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Marriage à-la-mode paintings prints —six satirical pictures commenting on fashionable society. Commonly considered Hogarth's masterwork
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The Marriage Settlement / The Marriage Contract
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The Tête à Tête / Shortly After the Marriage
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The Inspection / Visit to the Quack Doctor
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The Toilette / The Duchess' Morning Levee
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The Bagnio / The Death of the Earl
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The Lady's Death / The Suicide of the DuchessThe DiscoveryThe Battle of the Pictures —subscription ticket for an auction of Hogarth's works Thomas Herring, Archbishop of CanterburyJohn HugginsCaptain Lord George Graham in his CabinMary Blackwood, Mrs DesaguliersThe 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 produced
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The Stay-Maker / The Happy Marriage V: The Fitting of the Ball Gown
The Painter and his Pug / Self-Portrait with Pug-Dog / Gulielmus Hogarth painting print Mask and Palette —subscription ticket for David Garrick in the Character of Richard IIIDavid Garrick in the Character of Richard III painting print Simon Lord LovatThe Stage-Coach, Or The Country Inn YardIndustry and Idleness —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.
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The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms
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The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a Christian
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The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard, during Divine Service
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The Industrious 'Prentice a Favourite, and entrusted by his Master
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The Idle 'Prentice turn'd away, and sent to Sea
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The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time, & Married to his Master's Daughter
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The Idle 'Prentice return'd from Sea, & in a Garret with common Prostitute
The Idle 'Prentice betrayed, & taken in a Night-Cellar with his Accomplice
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The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle one brought before him & Impreach'd by his Accomplice
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The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn
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The Industrious 'Prentice Lord-Mayor of LondonThe Gate of Calais / O the Roast Beef of Old England painting print —a comic view of the French inspired by Hogarth's arrest as a spy in Calais Portrait of George Osborne, later John Ranby JnrPortrait of Hannah, Daughter of John Ranby Snr''
is shown vomiting into a chamber pot whilst lying in bed with a hangover. A painting allegedly commissioned by Schutz's wife to make her husband mend his ways.
The Forth Stage of CrueltyPaul Before Felix Burlesqued —subscription ticket for Paul Before Felix and Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's DaughterPaul Before FelixMoses Brought Before Pharaoh's DaughterColumbus Breaking the Egg —subscription ticket of The Analysis of BeautyThe Analysis of Beauty—Book Satire on False PerspectiveCrowns, Mitres and Maces—subscription ticket for Four Prints of an Election paintings prints
Four Prints of an Election / Humours of an Election / An Election Series —a wry look at election practices
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An Election Entertainment
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Canvassing for Votes
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The Polling
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Chairing the MemberFrancis Matthew Schutz in his Bed —the original which showed Schutz vomiting into a bowl was eventually overpainted to show him reading a bookJohn PineThe Altarpiece of St Mary RedcliffeThe Invasion; or France and England
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Plate 1: France
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Plate 2: EnglandBoy in a Green CoatDavid Garrick with His Wife Eva-Maria Veigel "La Violette" or "Violette"Inigo JonesHogarth Painting the Comic Muse painting print —self-portrait The Bench
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*Second state —issued posthumously.
The Lady's Last Stake / Picquet or Virtue in DangerSigismunda mourning over the Heart of GuiscardoThe Cockpit
Bookplate of the Arms of John Holland
James Caulfield, 1st Earl of CharlemontFrontispiece and illustration for Tristram Shandy
The Scotch Congregation—supposedly "almost unique on account of its extreme indecency"
Attributed to Hogarth
Various works which are either wrongly attributed to Hogarth, unlikely to be his work, or where some doubt exists as to whether they are his.
Peter Monamy Showing a Picture to Mr. Walker. Since about 1980 this painting has almost universally been attributed to Gawen Hamilton. See "French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago": entry on Gawen Hamilton by Malcolm Warner. The painting is not mentioned by Ronald Paulson.
Night Encounter Listed in the Tate 1972 catalogue, Paulson says "It may be by Hogarth"
Frederick, Prince of Wales —attributed to Hogarth by the Royal Collection
Augusta, Princess of Wales —attributed to Hogarth by the Royal Collection
Boy with a Paper-kite
Virtuous Courtship possibly a companion piece to The Lady's Last Stake
Girl with a Cage Hogarth's name is on the back of the painting
A View in a Village near London
A View of St. James's Park exhibited in 1814 as by Hogarth but probably by J. Wale
Rosamond's Pond claimed by Samuel Ireland to be by Hogarth
Button's Coffee House
Taste, or Burlington Gate—dismissed as Hogarth's work by Paulson on stylistic grounds
The Politician
Shop card for Richard Lee—a variation on A Midnight Modern Conversation, it is dismissed as Hogarth's work by Paulson on stylistic grounds
