[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d

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Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d
Alternative Title: Rake's progress. Plate 2
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: Title, state, and imprint 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.
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 ..."
'Plate 2d'--Lower right below image.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm.
Plate 9 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction. Purchased by W.S. Lewis at Sotheby's, Miss M.A.E. Crofton sale, lot 341; 15 November 1960.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.2 x 41 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 5].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 H67 764 (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]