Art, literature & history
Night
1738
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 48.4 × 38.5 cm (19 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.) mount: 62.8 × 46.1 cm (24 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.43
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. Night. 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,_Night,_1738,_NGA_30389.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Night — William Hogarth. 1738.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 48.4 × 38.5 cm (19 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.) mount: 62.8 × 46.1 cm (24 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.43. 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.