The Four Times of Day: Noon

Label

French Huguenots, or protestants, exit the church at St. Giles-in-the-Fields on Hog Lane in the second scene of the Four Times of Day, which presumably takes place on Sunday. The contrast between the well-dressed patrons of the church and the abject nature of the setting is heightened by the extravagance of their Sunday best. Hogarth also ridicules the French for dressing their children up to appear beyond their age. These fashionable worshippers are contrasted with the girl in the bottom right corner, who scoops scraps off of the ground, and the grotesque dead cat in the middle of the scene, likely in an open sewer. In this depiction of a person of African descent, we see a black man fondling a white woman. Her attention is diverted and she spills part of her pie onto the child below her.

From the 2019 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 94, Society Engraved, curated by Jules Wheaton '19, Levinson Intern Campus Engagement

Course History

ENGL 20, Age of Satire, Alysia Garrison, Winter 2014

ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022

ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022

ARTH 28.05, Art & Society in the Rococo, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2022

ARTH 28.05, Art & Society in the Rococo, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2022

ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics, & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

18th Century Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29-December 10, 1978.

A Space for Dialogue 94, Society Engraved, Jules Wheaton, Class of 2019, Levinson Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 22-August 4, 2019.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.

Hogarth and 18th Century Print Culture, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 17-June 22, 1997.

No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.

Pictur'd Morals: Prints by William Hogarth, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16-October 26, 1997.

Satirical Prints from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5-June 4, 1978.

Publication History

Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, Yale University Press, 1965, V.1.

Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal, eds., The Other Hogarth: The Aesthetics of Difference, Princeton, New Jersey and Oxfordshire, England: Princeton University Press, 2001, 320 pp., ill. p. 267, Fig. 116(detail), ill. p. 68, Fig. 18, ill. pp.258-9(neg.).

B&W;Slide;Scan

Jules Wheaton, Class of 2019, Levinson Intern, A Space for Dialogue 94, Society Engraved, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019.

Provenance

Frederick B. Daniell & Son, London, England; sold to present collection, 1961.

Catalogue Raisonne

R. Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, London, 1989, no. 147.

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