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

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Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic]. [Plate 8.]
Alternative Title: Soon hurried thro' a course of vice ...
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1735]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's eighth plate in the Rake's Progress series: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress restrained by attendants; two women revive a fainting Sarah Young (right). Tom's old wife looks at herself in a hand mirror (left). The wall to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Description: Title from original as cited by Paulson. Added titel from first line of verse etched below image. Verses (in four columns six lines each) continue: " ... with sots & panders, whores & dice, his mind by jarring passions tost ... with superstitions fears sit quaking, or combat devils of their own making."
Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2257.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139.
Mounted to: 353 x 435 mm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 1, p. 79.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.4 x 38cm
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 (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic): Asylums
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Parables
Rake's progress
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Asylums
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Parables
Rake's progress
England > 1735
England > London > 1735

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