Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.360
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
gaze | portrait | palette | wig | ascot | cravat | brown | man | turning
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)William Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor (The Morgan Library & Museum, 2019-05-24 - 2019-09-22)Hogarth (Musée du Louvre, 2006-10-18 - 2007-01-07)Hogarth (CaixaForum Madrid, 2007-05-21 - 2007-08-26)Hogarth (Tate Britain, 2007-02-05 - 2007-04-29)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)William Hogarth (1697-1764) (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1989-08-26 - 1989-11-12)Manners and Morals - Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 (Tate Britain, 1987-10-15 - 1988-01-03)William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30)
Publications:
Frederick Antal, Hogarth and his place in European art., Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1962, p. 91, no. 96a, NJ18 H67 A63 (YCBA)Art : The Definitive Visual History, DK Publishing, New York, 2018, p. 258, NX440 .A785 2018 Oversize (YCBA)Ronald Brymer Beckett, Hogarth, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1949, p. 55, no. 40, NJ18 H67 B43 1949Ronald Brymer Beckett, William Hogarth 1697-1764 : catalogue of an exhibition arranged by the Arts Council of Great Britain upon the occasion of the Festival of Britain 1951 : held at the Tate Gallery, London, 29th June-29th July, , Tate Gallery, London, 1951, p. 22, no. 23, NJ18 H67 B44 (YCBA)Jeremy John Bell, The Freemason's harlot : William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress in a masonic light, British Art Journal, Vol. 16, Autumn 2015, p. 42, Pl. 2, N6761 B74 16:2 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 122-123, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Elizabeth Einberg, Manners & morals : Hogarth and British painting 1700-1760 : The Tate Gallery., , Tate Publishing, London, 1987, pp. 94-5, no. 73, NJ18 H67 E55 + (YCBA)Elizabeth Einberg, The age of Hogarth, British painters born 1675-1709 , vol. 2, Tate Gallery, London, 1988, p. 112, ND466 T38 1988 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Elizabeth Einberg, William Hogarth : A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven, London, 2016, pp. 113-114, cat. 65, NJ18 H67 +E36 2016 Oversize (YCBA)William Rummel Francis, William Hogarth : A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Virginia Museum, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA., January 30-March 5, 1967, pp. 4, 21, no. 13, NJ18 H67 +F72 1967 Oversize (YCBA)Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians : life and art in London's golden age, , Allen Lane, London, 2013, pp. 132-133, 183, pl. 11, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (YCBA)Mark Hallett, Hogarth, Phaidon, London, 2000, pp. 134-136, 161-163, no. 77, NJ18 H67 H25 2000 (YCBA)Mark Hallett, Hogarth, Tate Publishing, London New York, 2006, pp. 38-39, no. 1, NJ18 H67 W5413 2006 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Samuel Ireland, Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, from pictures, drawings, and scarce prints in the possession of Samuel Ireland, author of this work; ... , R. Fauldner and J. Egerton, London, 1794, p. 1, Available Online (ORBIS)Jack Lindsay, Hogarth : his life and his world, , Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1977, p. 97, NJ18 H67 L56 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 42-43, no. 9, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)John Mullan, His Picture was His Stage, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 5425, March 23, 2007, pp. 18-19, Film S748 (SML) Also Available Online in TLS ArchiveRonald Paulson, Hogarth : His Life, Art, and Times, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 1971, pp. 450-45 (v.1), no. 170, NJ18 H67+ P39 Oversize (YCBA)Robin Simon, Hogarth, France and British Art : The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain, , Hogarth Arts, London, 2007, p. 50, fig. XV, NJ18 H67 +S55 2007 Oversize (YCBA)Jennifer S. Uglow, Hogarth, a life and a world , Faber and Faber, London, 1997, pp. 260-1, 404, NJ18 H67 U35 1997 (YCBA)Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, pp. 175-176, ND466 +.W38 Oversize (YCBA)Mary Webster, Hogarth, Studio Vista, London, 1979, pp. 6, 123, 126, 136, NJ18 H67 +W43 Oversize (YCBA)William Hogarth : A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon., , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1971, p. 21, no. 12, NJ18 H67 U53 (YCBA)William Hogarth : dipinti, disegni, incisioni : 26 Agosto-12 Novembre, 1989., , 6, Neri Pozza, Vincenza, Italy, 26 August- 12 November, p. 79, no. 139, NJ18 H67 W55 1989 + (YCBA)William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2006, pp. 38-9, no. 1, NJ18 H67 W54 2006 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
From the 1730s, William Hogarth dominated debates about what kind of art was appropriate for Britain and helped to revolutionize the art market. This assertive self-portrait shows Hogarth at the height of his influence, when he had recently completed his first two satirical “modern moral subjects”: The Harlot’s Progress (1732) and The Rake’s Progress (1734). Hogarth thought these series taken from contemporary life were more suited to a modern commercial society than conventional history paintings. The sale of prints after these subjects earned Hogarth a considerable income and freed him from reliance on aristocratic patrons. When this portrait was painted he had just pushed copyright legislation (“Hogarth’s Act” of 1735) through Parliament to protect the profits of his prints from the competition of cheap, pirated editions. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016