Time Smoking a Picture
ca. 1761
Medium
Etching and aquatint; third state of three (not recorded by Paulson)
Dimensions
image: 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm) sheet: 9 7/8 x 8 3/16 in. (25.1 x 20.8 cm) (plate line trimmed away at bottom)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.888-3
Tags
About the Artist
William Hogarth · 1697–1764
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, and pictorial satirist who became the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Born into poverty in London, the son of a failed schoolmaster who was imprisoned for debt, Hogarth's early experiences with the harsh realities of 18th-century urban life profoundly shaped his artistic vision. After apprenticing with si...