Art, literature & history
Time Smoking a Picture
1761
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and mezzotint
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.5 x 18.1 cm (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.121
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. Time Smoking a Picture. 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,_Time_Smoking_a_Picture,_1761,_NGA_30467.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Time Smoking a Picture — William Hogarth. 1761.
Medium: etching and mezzotint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.5 x 18.1 cm (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.121. 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.