Art, literature & history
The Distressed Poet
1736/1737
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.3 × 54.7 cm (17 1/16 × 21 9/16 in.) mount: 46.6 × 62.7 cm (18 3/8 × 24 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.80
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Distressed Poet. William Hogarth; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth,_The_Distressed_Poet,_1736-1737,_NGA_30426.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Distressed Poet — William Hogarth. 1736/1737.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 43.3 × 54.7 cm (17 1/16 × 21 9/16 in.) mount: 46.6 × 62.7 cm (18 3/8 × 24 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.80. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.