[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
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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
-
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.
Fourth state with 'Horlot' corrected to 'Harlot'; scrolls over the harpsichodist's shoulder are hatched, but the floor and the dancing master's coat are not yet hatched.
Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ..."
Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom margin of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson.
Ms. note in ink (another hand?) below image at right: Scotin fe: aqua fortis.
On page 68 in volume 1. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 35.2 x 41 cm
- Edition
- [State 4].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Plate 9. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 9. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]
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 ;
- 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
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > 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
- 12627071
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193928
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