Attended by his levee in London. [graphic]. Plate 2d

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Title: Attended by his levee in London. [graphic]. Plate 2d
Alternative Title: [Rake's progress]. Plate 2d
To recompense the Sire's continu'd Fast, ...
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1785 and 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 2 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 133): a fashionable interior with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master (said to be named Dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master (John Essex?), a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey.--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from Paulson.
Added title from text engraved above image.
Plate number below image, lower right.
Date range for publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint. "Robt. Sayer & Co." is found on prints published during Robert Sayer's final business period (1785-1794), following the Sayer & Bennett partnership (1774-1784) and preceding his death in 1794. See British Museum online catalogue.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 132.
Matted to: 34 x 46 cm.
Provenance: The Old Print Shop; April 2025.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.2 x 30 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English