A Scene from The Beggar's Opera
William Hogarth · 1728/1729 · oil on canvas
Public domain
Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.
How this license was checked
nga:openaccess=1
About this picture
A Scene from The Beggar's Opera is a public-domain painting by William Hogarth, dated 1728/1729. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Scene from The Beggar's Opera” (1728/1729) is a Hogarth subject: a scene of contemporary life, usually an engraving, meant to be read for what the people are doing.
About the artist
William Hogarth (1697–1764) was an English painter and engraver of modern moral subjects. Series such as A Harlot’s Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode tell one story across several plates.
Each file is included because the source archive marks it public domain or CC0. That is the archive’s statement, not a guarantee. Check the source record for your own use, especially outside the United States.