Noon (The Four Times of Day)
March 25, 1738
Medium
Engraving; second state of two
Dimensions
plate: 19 5/16 x 16 1/8 in. (49 x 41 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Accession Number
91.1.92
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Noon (The Four Times of Day William Hogarth, 1738 Engraving; second state of two Step into the bustling streets of 18th-century London with William Hogarth's *Noon*, the second installment in his renowned series *The Four Times Day*. Created as an engraving on March 25, 1738, this print captures a lively midday scene teeming with crowds gathered around doorways and buildings. Hogarth, a pioneering English artist and satirist, masterfully used the medium of engraving to produce affordable, widely circulated images that critiqued societal follies and class divides. As a second-state im...
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...