Night
1738
Artist, English, 1697 - 1764
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching with engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
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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.) -
Accession
2017.53.39
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Catalogue Raisonné
Paulson 1965, no. 155, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(R. E. Lewis, CA, 17 September 1984); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
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
Inscriptions
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
Wikidata ID
Q77259410