<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d</dc:title><dc:creator>Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[25 June 1735]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>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 ..."</dc:description><dc:description>Title, printmaker, and state from Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>Fourth state with 'Horlot' corrected to 'Harlot'; scrolls over the harpsichordist's shoulder are hatched, but the floor and the dancing master's coat are not yet hatched.</dc:description><dc:description>'Plate 2d'--Lower right below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Four columns of four lines each etched below image: Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, Most pelasing,w hen she most beguiles,) ...</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom margin of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson.</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in ink (another hand?) below image at right: Scotin fe: aqua fortis.</dc:description><dc:description>On page 67 in volume 1.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>