Going to court he is arrested at St. James's Gate

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Title: Going to court he is arrested at St. James's Gate
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published / Created: [1735]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with changes: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, "Nanny" offering a handful of money to reprieve her former lover, and a lamp-lighter carelessly spilling oil on the Rake's coat; in the distance to left, a group of street-boys point to "Taffy", a mannikin, perched on a lamp-post, and beyond the gate of St James's Palace. See British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
"This is one of the piracies that Hogarth complained of in the "London Evening Post" for 3 June 1735 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7044.1.
Twenty-six lines of verse in four columns beneath image, beginning: Young Ramble on St. Davids day, From head to foot equipt as gay ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2202.
Cf. Paulson, R, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted to: 38 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; July 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.3 x 38.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English