William Hogarth, 'The Graham Children', 1742

Provenance

Additional information

Exhibition history

• 2019
  Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud

  Compton Verney

  16 March 2019 - 16 June 2019
• 2023
  Finding Family

  The Foundling Museum

  17 March 2023 - 27 August 2023

Bibliography

• 1808
  J. Nichols and G. Steevens, The Genuine Work of William Hogarth, with Biographical Anecdotes, 3 vols, London 1808
• 1816
  'Obituary', Gentleman's Magazine, LXXXVI, 1816
• 1857
  G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being and Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss. […], translated from German by Elizabeth Eastlake, 3 vols, London 1857, vol. 3
• 1903
  M. Roldit, 'The Collection of Pictures of the Earl of Normanton at Somerley, Hampshire, Part 2', The Burlington Magazine, III, 1903, pp. 219-25
• 1908
  W.W. Wroth, 'Tickets of Vauxhall Gardens', Numismatic Chronicle, XVIII, 1908, pp. 73-92
• 1934
  'National Art Collections Fund 31st Annual Report 1934', National Art Collections Fund Annual Report, 1935, pp. 39-40
• 1935
  National Gallery, National Gallery and Tate Gallery Directors' Reports, 1934, London 1935
• 1937
  H. Walpole, Horace Walpole Correspondence, ed. W.S. Lewis, 48 vols, New Haven 1937
• 1946
  Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, London 1946
• 1946
  M. Davies, Paintings and Drawings on the Backs of National Gallery Pictures, London 1946
• 1949
  R. Beckett, Hogarth, London 1949
• 1953
  G.B. Hughes, 'Old English Bird-Cages', Country Life, 1953, pp. 973-4
• 1955
  P. Quennell, Hogarth's Progress, London 1955
• 1962
  F. Antal, Hogarth and His Place in European Art, London 1962
• 1972
  R. Edwards, 'The Dumb Rhetoric of the Scenery', Apollo, XCV, 1972
• 1975
  R. Paulson, Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century, London 1975
• 1975
  D. Mannings, 'A Well-Mannered Portrait by Highmore', The Connoisseur, CLXXXIX, 1975
• 1978
  L. Eitner, 'Cages, Prisons and Captives in Eighteenth-Century Art', in K. Kroeber and W. Walling (eds), Images of Romanticism, New Haven 1978, pp. 13-38
• 1983
  K. Thomas and L. Pollock, Forgotten Children, Cambridge 1983
• 1987
  E. Einberg, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 (exh. cat. Tate Gallery, 15 October 1987 - 3 January 1988), London 1987
• 1989
  M. Webster, 'An Eighteenth-Century Family: Hogarth's Portrait of the Graham Children', Apollo, CXXX/331, 1989, pp. 171-3
• 1989
  M. Webster, William Hogarth: Dipinti, disegni, incisioni (exh. cat. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore, 26 August - 12 November 1989), Venice 1989
• 1989
  K. Thomas, 'Children in Early Modern England', in G. Avery and J. Briggs (eds), Children and their Books, Oxford 1989, pp. 45-77
• 1990
  D. Shawe-Taylor, The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and Society, London 1990
• 1991
  J.T. Hayes, The Portrait in British Art: Masterpieces Bought with the Help of the NACF (exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, 8 November 1991 - 9 February 1992), London 1991
• 1992
  W.L. Pressly, 'Goya's Don Manuel Osorio de Zúñiga: A Christological Allegory', Apollo, 1992
• 1992
  S. Holdsworth, Innocence and Experience: Images of Children in British Art from 1600 to the Present (exh. cat. Ferens Art Gallery, 21 November 1992 - 10 January 1993; Nottingham Castle Museum, 16 January - 28 February 1993; Kelvingrove, 6 March - 25 April 1993), Manchester 1992
• 1993
  M. Pointon, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in the Eighteenth-Century England, New Haven 1993
• 1995
  J.C. Steward, The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 (exh. cat. University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 23 August - 19 November 1995; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 10 December 1995 - 4 February 1996; Joslyn Art Museum, 9 March - 5 May 1996), Berkeley 1995
• 1997
  J. Richardson, Looking at Pictures: An Introduction to Art for Young People Through the Collection of the National Gallery, London 1997
• 1997
  B. Sewell, 'Review of Hogarth the Painter at the Tate Gallery', Evening Standard, 1997, pp. 28-9
• 1997
  E. Einberg, Hogarth the Painter (exh. cat. Tate Gallery, 4 March - 8 June 1997), London 1997
• 1998
  J. Egerton, The British School, London 1998
• 2000
  Egerton, Judy, National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings, revised edn, London 2000
• 2001

  C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001

• 2004
  S. West, Portraiture, Oxford 2004
• 2006
  K. Eustace, 'The Key Is Locke: Hogarth, Rysbrack and the Foundling Hospital', British Art Journal, VII/2, 2006, pp. 34-49
• 2019
  A. Berry, 'The Graham Children by William Hogarth: The Immortalising Power of Portraiture', British Art Journal, XX/1, Spring/Summer 2019, pp. 3-7