[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
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16030524
Description
- Title
- [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
- Alternative Title
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Prosperity, (with Horlot's [sic] smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ... - Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [25 June 1735]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
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A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician at a harpsichord (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."
- Description
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Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first line of text.
Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ..." - Provenance
- Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 356 x 407 mm, on sheet 380 x 432 mm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Sotheby 9+ Box 200
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1735
Engravings England London 1735
Etchings England London 1735 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Clothing & dress
Harpsichords
Interiors
Merchants
Musicians
Rake's progress
Servants
Tailors
Young adults - Subjects
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Clothing & dress
Harpsichords
Interiors
Merchants
Musicians
Rake's progress
Servants
Tailors
Young adults
England > 1735
England > London > 1735
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9931610
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030524
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