Art, literature & history
The Laughing Audience
1733
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.4 x 19.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Platemark: 18.6 x 17 cm (7 5/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Border: 17.7 x 15.7 cm (6 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.278
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Laughing Audience. William Hogarth; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Laughing Audience — William Hogarth. 1733.
Medium: etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 24.4 x 19.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Platemark: 18.6 x 17 cm (7 5/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Border: 17.7 x 15.7 cm (6 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.