Mad in Bedlam [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Mad in Bedlam [graphic].
- Alternative Title
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Rake's progress. Plate 8
His fortune ruin'd, frenzy wrecks his mind - Contributor
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Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Bakewell, Thomas, -1749, publisher.
Hogarth, Jane, 1711?-1789. - Published / Created
- March 25, 1768.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
- Abstract
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Copy (reversed) of the first state of Plate 8 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 139), after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.: 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
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Title from text engraved above image.
"Plate 8"--Lower right below design.
Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: His fortune ruin'd, frenzy wrecks his mind, ...
The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm).
A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the eighth of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90.
Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735.
Ornamental borders partially obscure image on left and plate number on right. - Provenance
- Jarndyce; December 2019.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm and plate mark 26.4 x 31.2 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 44.7 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Hogarth 768.03.25.08+ Box 210
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Etchings England London 1768 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England),
- Subject (Topic)
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Asylums
Dogs
Guards
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Rake's progress - Subjects
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Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Asylums
Dogs
Guards
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Rake's progress
England > 1768
England > London > 1768
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
- 14850795
- Object ID (OID)
- 16873213
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