[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 8]

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Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 8]
Alternative Title: Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [25 June 1735]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Description: Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image.
Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
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 355 x 405 mm, on sheet 379 x 430 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: 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): Asylums
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Rake's progress
Subjects: Asylums
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Rake's progress
England > 1735
England > London > 1735
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > Ownership

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