[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 7

Description

Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 7
Alternative Title: Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch
A rake's progress
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 room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: State 4 with added crosshatching: the wings on top of the bedstead, Sarah's dress, the ribbon on the cap of the woman slapping Sarah's hand, Rakewell's right shoe and sleeve, his old wife's shoulder, the lower part of the warder's coat, the bundle in the lower right corner, and the whole of the floor ... See Paulson for fuller description.
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of verses below image.
"Plate 7"--Bottom left.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.6 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.
Leaf 14 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.8 x 39.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 4].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title: Plate 14. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 14. 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]