Full Exhibition Checklist

All books and prints are from the Graphic Arts Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University, unless otherwise noted.

The Bubblers Medley, or A Sketch of the Times, 1720. Etching and engraving

A Prospect of the City of London, ca. 1720. Published by Joseph Smith, London. Engraving.

George Bickham the Elder (1683/84–1758). Death Is the End of All Men, also called The Bubblers Funeral Ticket for Ye South Sea Directors, ca. 1721. Etching and engraving.

John Gay (1685–1732). The Beggar’s Opera: As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. London: John Watts, 1728. Robert H. Taylor Collection. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Christopher Bullock (1690?–1724). Woman’s Revenge: or, A Match in Newgate. A Comedy. [Second edition] to which is added, A Compleat Key to The Beggar’s Opera, by Peter Padwell of Padington, Esq. London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1728. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

John Christopher Pepusch (1667–1752). The Tunes to the Songs in “The Beggar’s Opera.” London: John Watts, 1728. Robert H. Taylor Collection. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Unknown artist. The Stage’s Glory, 1731. Etching. Theatre Collection. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Boys Peeping at Nature, 1730/1731 (later printing). Etching (Paulson 120).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). A Harlot's Progress, 1732. Etchings and engravings (Paulson 121–26).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1732/33. Etching, 3rd state (Paulson 128).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Southwark Fair, also called The Humours of a Fair, 1733. Engraving (Paulson 131).

William Hogarth (1697–1764), with some engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin the Younger, (1690–ca. 1750). A Rake's Progress, 1735. Etchings and engravings (Paulson 132–39)

Joseph Gay [pseudonym for John Durant Breval, 1680?–1738]. The Rake’s Progress, or, The Humours of Drury-Lane . . . a Compleat Key to the Eight Prints Lately Published by the Celebrated Mr. Hogarth. Second edition. London: J. Chettwood, 1735. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Before and After, 1736. Etchings and engravings, 2nd state (Paulson 141 and 142).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Four Groups of Heads, 1736–1737 (The Company of Undertakers; Scholars at a Lecture; A Chorus of Singers [also called Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith]; and The Laughing Audience [also called A Pleased Audience]). Etchings and engravings (Paulson 127, 130, 143, 144).

William Hogarth (1697–1764), additional engraving by Bernard Baron (1696–ca. 1766). The Four Times of Day, 1738. Engravings (Paulson 146–49)

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn, 1738. Engraving (Paulson 150).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Distressed Poet, 1740. Etching and engraving, 3rd state (Paulson 145).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Enraged Musician, 1741. Etching and engraving, 2nd state (Paulson 152).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Characters and Caricaturas, 1743. Etching, 2nd state (Paulson 156).

William Hogarth (1697–1764), with engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin the Younger (1690–ca. 1750), Bernard Baron (1696–ca. 1766), and Simon Francis Ravenet the Elder (1706 or 1721–1774). Marriage A-la-Mode, 1745. Engravings (Paulson 158–63)

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Industry and Idleness, 1747. Engravings, 2nd state (Paulson 168–179).

William Hogarth (1697–1764), engraved by Charles Mosley (ca. 1720–ca. 1770). O the Roast Beef of Old England, &c. (Gate of Calais), 1749. Etching and engraving (Paulson 180).

Theodosius Forrest (1728–1784). The Roast Beef of Old England: A Cantata.  London: Printed for Robert Sayer, 1749. Broadside.

Three broadsides by unknown artists

An Apology to the Town, for Himself and the Bottle, 1749

English Credulity, or, Ye’re All Bottled, 1749

The Bottl’d Heroes, or, Madness and Folly A La Mode . . . Humbly Inscrib’d to Mr. [Hogarth] and Mr. [Garrick], 1749 Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Henry Fielding (1707–1754). An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c., with Some Proposals for Remedying This Growing Evil. London: A. Millar, 1751. Robert H. Taylor Collection. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Beer Street (left) and Gin Lane (right), 1751. Etchings and engravings, 3rd state (Paulson 185), 2nd state. (Paulson 186). Verse by James Towneley (1714–1778)

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Etchings and engravings (Paulson 187–90). Verse by James Towneley (1714–1778).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste. London: J. Reeves for the author, 1753. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Crowns, Mitres, Maces, etc., 1754. Etching, 4th state (Paulson 197).

Map of London in John Stow (1525?–1605). A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark. Sixth edition. London: W. Innys and J. Richardson, 1754–1755. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

William Hogarth (1697–1764), plate 2 engraved by Charles Grignion I (1717–1810). Four Prints of an Election, 1755–1758. Etchings and engravings (Paulson 198–201).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Invasion, 1756. Etchings (Paulson 202–203). Captions by David Garrick (1717–1779).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse, 1758. Etching and engraving, 7th state (Paulson 204).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Cockpit, 1759. Etching and engraving (Paulson 206)

Luke Sullivan (1705–1771) after William Hogarth (1697–1764). The March to Finchley, also called A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, 1761. Etching and engraving, 8th state, “Retouched and improved by Wm Hogarth, republish’d June 12th 1761” (Paulson 184).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Time Smoking a Picture, 1761. Mezzotint and engraving (Paulson 208).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. A Medley, 1762. Etching and engraving (Paulson 210).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Times, 1762. Plate 1, 3rd state. Plate 2, printed 1790. Engravings (Paulson 211–12).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Tail-Piece, or The Bathos, 1764. Engraving (Paulson 216).

William Hogarth (1697–1764). Hogarth Moralized: Being a Complete Edition of Hogarth’s Works . . . Now First Published, with the Approbation of Jane Hogarth, Widow of the Late Mr. Hogarth. London: Sold by S. Hooper and Mrs. Hogarth, 1768. Cotsen Children’s Library; Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Sir John Fielding (1721–1780). Murders: True Examples of the Interposition of Providence, in the Discovery and Punishment of Murder. Bath: S. Hazard, [179-?]. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986

William Blake (1757–1827) after William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Beggar’s Opera, Act III, 1790. Etching and engraving. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. William H. Walker II

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Original Works of William Hogarth. London: Sold by John and Josiah Boydell at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1790. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Unknown artist. The Good & Bad Apprentice [writing sheet], ca. 1800. Engraving and letterpress. Cotsen Children’s Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Jane Collier (1715?–1755). An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. New revised edition. London: [Thomas Tegg], 1808.

Low Life; or, One Half of the World Know Not How the Other Half Live, Being a Critical Account of What Is Transacted by the Inhabitants of the Cities of London . . . in the Twenty-Four Hours Between Saturday Night and Monday Morning. London: R. Rusted, [1810?]. First published in 1752, “With an address to the ingenious and ingenuous Mr. Hogarth.” Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827), after a design by Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832). A Bird Eye View of Covent Garden Market, 1811. A View of Smithfield Market, 1811. Etching and aquatint.

George Cruikshank (1792–1878). Polly and Lucy Takeing Off Restrictions, Vide Beggar’s Opera, 1812. Hand-colored etching. Gift of Richard W. Meirs, Class of 1888.

John Thomas Smith (1766–1833). Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, 1815. Etchings.

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). Rowlandson’s Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders. London: Samuel Leigh, 1820.

William Hogarth (1697–1764). The Works of William Hogarth: From the Original Plates Restored by James Heath. London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1821–1822. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799). Förklaring öfver William Hogarth’s Sedemålningar. 2 vols. Stockholm: N. H. Thomson, 1834.

John Thomas Haines (1799?–1843). The Life of a Woman, or, The Curate’s Daughter: A Pictorial Drama of Interest, Founded on Hogarth’s “Harlot’s Progress.” London: James Pattie, [1840?]. Theatre Collection. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Henry Mayhew (1812–1887). London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work. London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1861–1862. Volumes 2 and 3. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Walter Arnold (fl. 1700s). The Life and Death of the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Company, 1871.

Blanchard Jerrold (1826–1884) and Gustave Doré (1832–1883). London: A Pilgrimage. London: Grant & Company, 1872. Opening: City Thoroughfare.  Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Rebecca West (1892–1983). The Modern “Rake’s Progress.” London: Hutchinson & Company, [1934]. Plates after paintings by David Low (1891–1963).

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). The Rake’s Progress: Opera in Three Acts. Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. London, New York: Boosey & Hawkes, [ca. 1951]. Rare Book Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.