Night, 1738

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series Title

The Four Times of Day

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 48.6 × 40.7 cm (19 1/8 × 16 in.)

sheet: 57.2 × 45.9 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler

Catalogue Raisonné

Paulson 1965, no. 155, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2017.53.39

Artists / Makers

William Hogarth (artist) English, 1697 - 1764

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper right in pen and ink: 25.; on sign in image: Shaving Bleeding & / Teeth Drawn at a Touch / Ecce Signum; lower left in plate: Invented Painted Engraved & Published by Wm. Hogarth March 25. 1738. According to Act of Par.mt; lower center in plate: NIGHT; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P. 155ii

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis, CA, 17 September 1984); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

R. E. lewis
Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas

Bibliography

1965: Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Rev. ed., 1970: no. 155, ii/ii

1989: Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Rev. ed., 1970, no. 149, ii/ii