William Hogarth

The Distrest Poet

December 15, 1740

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching and engraving; third state of three

Dimensions

plate: 14 3/16 x 16 1/4 in. (36 x 41.3 cm)

Collection no.

91.1.118

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. The Distrest Poet. William Hogarth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.