Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

1738

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of four
Dimensions: plate: 17 15/16 x 22 7/16 in. (45.5 x 57 cm)
Collection no.: 29.38.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn. William Hogarth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1929. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn — William Hogarth. 1738.

Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of four. Dimensions: plate: 17 15/16 x 22 7/16 in. (45.5 x 57 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1929.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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