[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
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17339312
Description
- Title
- [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
- Alternative Title
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Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
Surrounded by artists and professors - Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [between 1790 and 1835]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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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 and state from Paulson.
Fifth state; the floor under the dancing master's feet has been darkened, his coat under his violin has added hatching, and the fold of Rakewell's dressing gown behind the violin is now crosshatched.
Restrike of the fifth state of the plate, which was issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was later reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson.
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 ..."
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric -- Insanity. - Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 36.0 x 40.5 cm
- Edition
- [State 5, restrike].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print20076
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1735
Engravings England London 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Restrikes - Material
- etching and engraving ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- 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 > 1790
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
- 16211168
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339312
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