For several other current and older sources, see also the search result for "William Hogarth" given by the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History.
For recent essays on Hogarth available to subscribers on the World Wide Web, try, in addition, the Project Muse's new search engine.
Type in "Hogarth" as a search term, and then, in the "Within" box, select "Article Title".
For a useful online bibliography on Hogarth, see further the 1998 version of The William Hogarth Archive (University of Wales, Lampeter).
You should also try two of the best general search engines:
Type in a few descriptive words such as "Hogarth", "William Hogarth", "Paulson +Hogarth", "Hogarth +painting +Paulson", "+Hogarth +Reynolds", or "Rake's Progress +Hogarth -Stravinsky -opera -music", and click on the Search button. You will be agreeably surprised at the result. You may also try other common search engines and directories such as All the Web (Fast Search), AltaVista, AOL Search, art.surfwax.com, Ask Jeeves, Britannica.com, Clusty,
euroseek,
Excite, geometry, GO.com,
Google Scholar,
HotBot, LookSmart: Find Articles, Lycos, MetaCrawler, MSN Search, Netscape, Open Directory Project (dmoz),
questia,
SearchEdu,
Scirus,
SurfWax, Teoma or Yahoo, with fairly different results. Put the search engines to the test and simply type in "Hogarth AND bibliography". Indeed, some results you get could include rather worthless stuff.
For a table of useful general art history resources on the Web, see, in addition, Chris Witcombe's Art History Research Resources. For a general search of relevant eighteenth-century topics, you should try the C18-L's Selected Readings search engine. It will find single-word instances in all the available back issues of Selected Readings, the most comprehensive interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies on the Web. For lists of interesting eighteenth-century links, see also Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources, some parts of Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle, the "18th-Century Art" section of Chris Witcombe's Art History resources on the web, and the Links section of William Hogarth's Realm by Shaun Wourm.
LINKS TO ONLINE IMAGE ARCHIVES:
Artcyclopedia: William Hogarth.
Lists many online image archives.
Olga's Gallery: William Hogarth.
Excellent images of Hogarth's paintings. A wonderful site.
William Hogarth's Realm: The Gallery.
Extensive gallery of Hogarth's pictures, still in the process of construction and divided into useful subsections.
Maximilian Genealogy: William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Remarkable gallery of Hogarth's pictures, focusing on the paintings. The site also includes a short biography.
Haley & Steele: William Hogarth.
American printsellers' exhibition of many prints. However, this site is now closed. It included illustrations and descriptions of many of these prints and information about the different states and editions of Hogarth's engravings. The commentaries were provided by Edward Hammonds. For a cached version, see Haley & Steele presents: William Hogarth (cached version).
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Image Archive: William Hogarth.
Remarkable collection of Hogarth's prints. Each part of an engraving can be enlarged greatly on the screen. Click on the thumbnail pictures to zoom in and look at the details.
Collage: Hogarth
Another collection of Hogarth's prints. Part of an image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. Click on an image to see more information.
Princeton University Library: William Hogarth.
Excellent large-size reproductions of The Times, Plate I, The Sleeping Congregation, The Company of Undertakers, The Five Orders of Periwigs, and Hudibras Sallying Forth.
Carol Gerten-Jackson: CGFA: Hogarth.
A dozen images of paintings by Hogarth plus the six prints of A Harlot's Progress.
The William Hogarth Archive, Founders' Library, University of Wales, Lampeter: The Images.
One of the most extensive image archives of Hogarth's prints on the Web. Unfortunately, all of the 126 photographs presented here are underexposed.
William Hogarth, Museum Image Collections.
List of links to several images of Hogarth's prints mainly from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Art of the Print: Image Gallery (Hj to Hog).
Printseller's image gallery offering several prints by Hogarth, mostly taken from the nineteenth-century edition by James Heath (1822). Contains a description of each work.
Alexander Pope's Homepage: William Hogarth.
All prints of the Harlot's Progress and the Rake's Progress series plus some brief introductory remarks. Click on the pictures to enlarge.
William Hogarth: Zyklen.
All prints of A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode together with some other engravings. Click on the pictures to enlarge.
ArtServe: Prints by Subject: Hogarth.
Extensive picture gallery presented by the Australian National University, including all images of Hogarth's narrative sequences and some other of his prints and paintings. The quality of the scans, however, is rather indifferent. See also subsequent pages.
Web Gallery of Art: Hogarth, William.
Web gallery created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. Presents the paintings of, and comments on, An Election Entertainment; the first two scenes of Marriage A-la-Mode; and images of the portrait of Mary Edwards; The Painter and His Pug; The Orgy from A Rake's Progress; A Scene from the 'Beggar's Opera'; the indoor painting of After; and The Strode Family. Also includes a short biography.
Sue Coe, "William Hogarth: The Four Stages of Cruelty".
Images of The Four Stages of Cruelty plus short commentaries on the prints.
World Art Treasures (Rencontre des Trésors d'Art du Monde): William Hogarth.
Images of several paintings by Hogarth, or rather of details of the pictures, among them the eight scenes of A Rake's Progress and some portraits.
Hogarth prints at Chetham's.
Details from some Hogarth prints in the collection of Chetham's Library, Manchester.
Mark Harden's Artchive: William Hogarth.
Good reproductions of the prints of Beer Street, The Bruiser, John Wilkes, Esq, and The March to Finchley, plus an image of the painting of the Bedlam scene of A Rake's Progress.
Humanities Web: William Hogarth, Selected Works
Images of, and short commentaries on, some of Hogarth's paintings and prints.
William Hogarth (1697-1764).
A short account of the artist's life and work plus five illustrations: Hogarth's self-portrait of 1745, the painting of O the Roast Beef of Old England, and copies of Gin Lane, Beer Street and Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (mistakenly titled Enthusiasm Delineated).
"Pre"history -- Hogarth.
The six prints of A Harlot's Progress plus The Five Orders of Periwigs.
ANSC100 Image Library: Hogarth, William.
The eight paintings of A Rake's Progress.
La Carrière du Roué (1735).
Images of five prints from the Rake's Progress series preserved at the Université de Liège, including French commentaries.
William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress (1732).
The six prints of A Harlot's Progress without commentary.
National Portrait Gallery: William Hogarth.
Survey of 25 portraits by Hogarth kept in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Visual Telling of Stories Archive: Hogarth's Narratives.
Misleading title, as only four individual prints by Hogarth are shown: Some Principal Inhabitants of the Moon, Scholars at a Lecture, Time Smoking a Picture, and Tail Piece, or The Bathos.
Room Six: William Hogarth.
Images of, and commentaries on, Hogarth's Don Quixote illustrations. Part of a Don Quixote exhibition. See also the four additional engravings. For a Spanish version of the text, see Cuarto seis: William Hogarth.
Selected Hogarth Prints. Scanned by Jack Lynch.
Six hastily scanned prints by Hogarth: Gin Lane; Beer Street; The Distressed Poet; Industry and Idleness, Plate 7; The Enraged Musician; Scholars at a Lecture.
The European Enlightenment Gallery: William Hogarth.
Large-size reproductions of Plate 4 of A Harlot's Progress and Plate 11 of Industry and Idleness. Click on the small pictures to enlarge.
Hogarth (1697-1764).
Page linking to those scenes of Hogarth associated with inns and taverns.
William Hogarth, Before and After.
Outdoor and indoor scenes of Hogarth's Before and After.
William Hogarth.
Czech Web site presenting some of Hogarth's paintings and prints.
Art Unframed: William Hogarth.
A selection of 13 images of Hogarth's paintings. Commercial Web site offering reproduction copies of any work, "hand painted in oils on Belgian canvas".
Graphic Type Ltd: The Engravings of William Hogarth CD.
Offer of 107 JPEG images of engravings for use in desktop publishing, graphic design and education. Two dozen of these can be previewed on the screen. However, most images seem to be reproduced from copies rather than Hogarth's originals.
Antique engravings and prints: William Hogarth.
Printsellers' offer of sets of nineteenth-century copies of Hogarth's prints.
LINKS TO OTHER EXCELLENT SITES:
Shaun Wourm: William Hogarth's Realm.
One of the best and most expansive sites. Includes several interesting sections, among them the author's own MA thesis on the Industry and Idleness series, a biographical chronology, a message board and many links concerning Hogarth and eighteenth-century culture in general. Send a message or ask a question! The site is being reconstructed. See the new version of William Hogarth's Realm
Allen Samuels, The William Hogarth Archive.
Contents: images of 126 prints by Hogarth; remarkable bibliographies of publications on Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and various aspects of eighteenth-century life; some few links to related sites. Unfortunately, all photographs (taken of original prints or later copies published by enterprising publishers such as Boydell) appear to be underexposed (i.e. dark) and are only numbered consecutively without labels.
Humanities Web: William Hogarth
Part of a Humanities Web site on 18th Century Art in England. Includes a "Biography" of some length; "Selected Works"; "Suggested Reading"; an Index by Period on 18th Century Narrative Painting (1750-1800); and some "Additional Resources". See also Hogarth's Legacy. There are similar pages on Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Angela Rosenthal (curator), William Hogarth and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture, exh., Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 17 April-22 June 1997.
Well-presented and informative online exhibition critically reassessing the satirical graphic work of Hogarth by highlighting a variety of eighteenth-century themes, e.g. Hogarth's deep concern with the ills of the modern city, the dignity of and the dangers faced by prostitutes, and issues of theatricality, race, class, and taste.
James Christen Steward (curator), Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, 1998.
Survey of the exhibition organised to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Hogarth's birth.
Haley & Steele presents: William Hogarth (1697-1764).
American printseller's site on Hogarth, focusing on the prints. However, this site is now closed. It included illustrations and descriptions of many plates and information about the different states and editions of Hogarth's engravings. The commentaries were provided by Edward Hammonds. For a cached version, see Haley & Steele presents: William Hogarth (cached version).
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