# A Scene from the Beggar's Opera [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOGARTH, William]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 61 ## Commentary The Scene from the Beggar's Opera was among the first of Hogarth's topical pictures in a career that had begun with portraits and conversation pieces. Later he moved from the contemporary theatrical life to complete series of pictures of his own devising in subject: The Rake's Progress and Marriage à la Mode. ## Related artworks - [An Election Entertainment]() - [Before the Seduction and After]() - [Gin Lane]() - [Marriage à la Mode]() - [Marriage à la Mode]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [Portrait of Mary Edwards]() - [Soliciting Votes]() - [The Marriage of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox]() - [The Orgy]() - [The Painter and his Pug]() - [The Shrimp Girl]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()