The Laughing Audience

1733

William Hogarth

Artist, English, 1697 - 1764

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1944.5.109

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Paulson 1965, no. 130, State iv/iv

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

1956

  • Art and the Theater, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC, 1956.

1960

  • Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 31.

1962

  • Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1965

  • Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.

1967

  • William Hogarth, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1967.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

Bibliography

1965

  • Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Rev. ed., 1970.

Wikidata ID

Q65026962


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