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Boys Peeping at Nature

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Boys Peeping at Nature

William Hogarth

1737

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 6 15/16 × 5 7/16 in. (17.6 × 13.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926

Classification

Prints|Ephemera

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About William Hogarth

1697–1764 • Kingdom of Great Britain

Hogarth is best known for his satirical engravings. He was an important figure in the establishment of an English school of painting, both through the quality of his own work and through campaigns to improve the status of the artist in England. By publishing engravings after his own paintings, he showed other artists that they could be independent of wealthy patrons. Comment on works: Portraits; Genre

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