The Painter and His Pug
William Hogarth, 1745
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyHogarth paints himself as a portrait-within-a-portrait, with his pug Trump sitting guard in the real world outside the frame. The great English satirist chose a pug as his public double — pugnacious, unpretty, and unbothered — and made it a manifesto.
- Maker
- William Hogarth
- Date
- 1745
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Tate Britain, London
- Credit
- Tate Britain, London · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01877
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 147 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,177 x 1,536 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 23, lights 136 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 6.32
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