Boys Peeping at Nature

1751

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four
Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 13/16 in. (15 x 12.3 cm) (trimmed)
Collection no.: 32.35(205)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. Boys Peeping at Nature. William Hogarth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932. 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

Boys Peeping at Nature — William Hogarth. 1751.

Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four. Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 13/16 in. (15 x 12.3 cm) (trimmed).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932.

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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