The Enraged Musician

William Hogarth

November 30, 1741 · Etching and engraving; third state of three · Drawings and Prints

A scene in London, possibly near St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with a musician at an open window holding his ears against the noise of the street; a ballad-seller chants while her baby cries, a milkmaid and other street-traders cry their wares, one small boy plays a drum while another urinates under the startled gaze of a small girl who holds a rattle, an itinerant oboist plays, a knife-grinder sharpens a cleaver, and so on. In this state the horse on the extreme right is black (white in the earlier state), the boy's slate trailing on the ground was only half shaded in the earlier state, but is now darkened.

Artist

William Hogarth

Date

November 30, 1741

Medium

Etching and engraving; third state of three

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891