Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Alexander Pope
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Robert Burns.
Thomas Parnell.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Dr
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Charles Churchill
Boris Pasternak.
Hudibras and Ralpho in the stocks.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The council of the rulers and the elders against the tribe of ye Americanites
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744).
Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme
Coventry Patmore.
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
The Funeral of Chyrstom & Marcella vindicating herself' by William Hogarth
The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter . 1764 by William Hogarth
Don Quixote Seizes the Barber's Bason for Mambrino's Helmet', 1756. by William Hogarth
'The unfortunate Knight of the Rock meeting Don Quixote' 1756. by William Hogarth
The Curate and the Barber Disguising Themselves to convey Don Quixote Home. by William Hogarth
EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966).
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Plate 1 The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms by William Hogarth
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
Frontispiece to Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras'.
The March to Finchley.
Tammany Police Child Stealer.
The distressed poet.
Alexander Pope.
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745).
Arrested For Debt. from 'A Rake's Progress' 1735, By William Hogarth
The Battle of the Pictures by William Hogarth
The Tete a Tete from Marriage a-la-mode, 1743 - 1745; by William Hogarth
The Weighing House. (absolute gravity) by William Hogarth
A Rake's Progress - Plate 2 - Surrounded By Artists And Professors by William Hogarth
The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects by William Hogarth
The Five Orders of Periwigs by William Hogarth
The Duel Plate V from marriage a la mode by William Hogarth
Thomas Morell (1703 1784) English librettist, classical scholar by William Hogarth
satirical engraving of Wilkes by William Hogarth
The Analysis of Beauty is a book written by William Hogarth
The Courting.
Henry Fielding
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
A French Ordinary.
The Election -Soliciting Votes by William Hogarth
Industry and Idleness.
DOR : DON QUIXOTE.
WAUGH: DECLINE AND FALL.
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678).
A camel.
Elephant.
The Politician. by William Hogarth (1697 1764),
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Wright's theory of the universe, 1750
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
Tragic Serenade.
The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn by William Hogarth
The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, by William Hogarth
The Industrious 'Prentice out of his Time & Married to his Master's Daughter. by William Hogarth
The Rake's Progress.
Plate 8 Bedlam from the Rake's Progress by William Hogarth.
Plate 7 from the Rake's Progress.
Plate 3 from the Rake's Progress.
William Hogarth 'Marriage A la Mode'.
Marriage A-la-Mode.
RICHARD STEELE (1672-1729).
Self portrait by William Hogarth (1697 1764).
To nature and your self appeal. by William Hogarth
The Chorus 1732, by William Hogarth
Engraved portrait of Henry Fielding
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
BRANT: SHIP OF FOOLS.
Engraved portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray
PARLIAMENT OF BEES.
Mary Howitt.
Diana and Endymion
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Woodcut illustration from a 15th century edition of 'Das Narrenschiff' (The Ship of Fools).
The joys of spring before the age of the freezer.
William Hogarth.
A Dutch satire on the failure of the South Sea Company.
John Law of Lauriston, promoter of the Mississippi Company and other bubble schemes.
Dutch satirical engraving.
The Mississippi Company and other financial bubbles.
Representant d'une grande nation.
Satire on Presbyterian Ministers.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
The second attempt to lay the Atlantic telegraph cable.
The laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable.
Mr Edward Linley Sambourne.
Satirical magazine cover of 'Le Rire'.
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin
William Gifford, British poet and editor
TRYING TO REACH PARNASSUS.
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) English dramatist. The Alchemist (1610) Jonson's satire on cupidity. Abel Drugger the tobacconist, the main comic role, played by James William Dodd (1734-1796).
Absolute Gravity.
The Chorus.
The Laughing Audience.
Consultation of physicians.
The lecture.
Analysis of Beauty Plate 1.
Analysis of Beauty Plate 2.
To Nature and yourself appeal.
The South Sea Bubble.
The lottery.
The Bench.
Characters.
The battle of the pictures.
VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).
The lottery. by William Hogarth (1697 1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist.
Consultation of Physicians by William Hogarth
The Marriage Settlement from Marriage a-la-mode, 1743 - 1745; by William Hogarth
The Toilette from Marriage a-la-mode, 1743 - 1745; by William Hogarth
The inspection from Marriage a la mode by William Hogarth (1697 1764).
Bedlam from 'A Rake's Progress' 1733, By William Hogarth (1697 1764).
Satire on False Perspective by William Hogarth
A Rake's Progress - Plate 3 - The Tavern Scene, by William Hogarth
A Rake's Progress - Plate 5 - Married To An Old Maid by William Hogarth
The Industrious 'Prentice Lord-Mayor of London by William Hogarth
A Rake's Progress - Plate 6 - Scene In A Gaming House by William Hogarth
A Rake's Progress - Plate 7 - The Prison Scene by William Hogarth
Scholars at a Lecture, by William Hogarth
The Times. 1762, by William Hogarth (1697 1764)
The Times. Plate II 1762, by William Hogarth
Characters and Caricaturas by William Hogarth
Sancho at the Feast, Starved by his Physician by William Hogarth
The Laughing Audience, Bill of Sale 1733; by William Hogarth
Royalty, Episcopacy and Law by William Hogarth
Daniel Lock, Architect and artist; 1762; by William Hogarth
The Bench, 1758 by William Hogarth
The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a Christian by William Hogarth
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Edmond Rostand.
Francesco Petrarca.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Thomas Carlyle
Samuel Butler
John Wilmot
Jonathan Swift
Charles Golightly.
Cartoon by John Tenniel.
Charity sweeping aside Mr Brumble's protests in her determination to bring relief to poor families in distress.
Charity sweeping aside Mr Bumble's Protests.
The abuse of the limited liability system.
A satirical version of Romeo and Juliet.