Confined in prison he reflects on his ill conduct and misfortunes [graphic].

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Title: Confined in prison he reflects on his ill conduct and misfortunes [graphic].
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 plate 7 in the Rake's Progress series; a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his old wife brandishing her fists beside a weeping Sarah Young, other prisoners in the background
Description: Title from text above image.
Below image, four columns each with six lines of verse: "The compter next our spark receivces ... describes his exit on the wall."
See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2226-2245.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 138.
Mounted to: 360 x 423 mm.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.3 x 38.1 cm, on sheet 34.6 x 40.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1735
Engravings England London 1735
Etchings England London 1735
Material: engraving & etching ;
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Prisons
Rake's progress
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Criminals
Prisons
Rake's progress
England > 1735
England > London > 1735

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