published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Plate 79. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 55. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1s. 6d"--Left corner, below design., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.5 x 31.7 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 55 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
Plate 60. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First etched as a subscription ticket for "A Midnight Modern Conversation" with seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible. In this state the plate has been reduced with the text eliminated, leaving only traces of the first line of text
Description:
Title, date, and state from Paulson., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 21.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 48 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as she gazes at herself in the mirror. On the left, a clergyman spills his brandy as he surreptitiously gropes beneath a woman's skirt; Moll's serving woman, standing at the coffin with a wine bottle and glass in hand scowls at the pair. Under the window and to the right, the undertaker flirts with a pretty young prostitute who picks a handkerchief from his pocket. In the foreground Moll's small son plays with a spinning top. Sprigs of yew (rosemary?) decorate her coffin; a plate of yew rests on the floor at the parson's feet, another spring at her son's feet
Description:
Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson., "Plate 6"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.6 x 38.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 7 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Rake's progress, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the wig-box of James Dalton, highwayman, sits above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a Drury Lane tavern. A kitten plays at Moll's feet. A copy of Bishop Gibson's "Pastoral Letter to ..." serves as a butter dish. Above the window on the left is a print after a Titian painting depicting the angel staying the hand of Abraham as he is about to slay Isaac. Medicine bottles on the window sill suggest that Molly is already ill with the disease that will later kill her
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 3"--Lower left corner., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 32 x 38.8 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 4 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 9. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 9. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
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 ..."
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) ..., and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ...
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 35.6 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 9 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Plate 10. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 10. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background; one woman drinks from the punchbowl; another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to the right, a harpist and a door through which enters a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged. The portrait on the wall which in the 2nd state was a faceless Julius Caesar is now a portrait of Pontac
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poinson good!
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse below image., "Plate 3"--Lower right corner., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image; separate caption and imprint mount below., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.8 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 10 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 11. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 11. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The fourth plate in the series The rake's progress. In this scene two baliffs, one with an arrest notice in his hand, have stopped Tom Rakewell's sedan chair in St. James's Street; Tom is presumably on his way to White's gaming house which can be seen in the background. They are foiled in their attempt to arrest Tom for debt as Sarah Young, the young woman whom he had seduced and abandoned, offers the bailiffs her purse instead. Sarah is now a dealer in millinery as is suggested by the notions falling from her purse. In the right foreground a shoe-black apparently taking advantage of the situation to take hold of Tom's elegant walking stick. Above them a careless lamplighter spills some oil on Tom's head. To the left a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, accompanied by his manicured dog, simply watches the scene. In the distance is the gate of St James's Palace with a crowd of sedan-chairs approaching to celebrate the birthday of Queen Caroline
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good ...
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first two lines of the verse etched below image., After the painting now at Sir John Soane's Museum., "Plate 4."--Lower right corner., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.8 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 11 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Bailiffs, Dogs, Children, Lamps, Lust, Seduction, Sedan chairs, Seamstresses, Street vendors, Young adults, Ethics, Rake's progress, and Traffic congestion
Tom and a wealthy old woman are being married in the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone. The bride has only one eye and growths on her forehead; the IHS on the wall behind her serve as a mock halo. In contrast the old woman is attended by a beautiful young woman who has already caught Tom's eye. In the background on the left, the elderly pew opener pushes Sarah Young, carrying Tom's child in her arms, and Sarah's mother; she shakes her keys in their faces to prevent them from entering the church to stop the marriage. Two dogs in the lower left of the image mirror the courtship of Tom and his bride; the courted dog has only one eye. The clergyman is assisted at the altar by a clerk, and a charity-boy kneels at the bride's feet offering a hassock. The Poor Box on the left is covered with a cobweb; there is a crack down the center of the slab with the Commandments on the wall behind the clergyman
Alternative Title:
New to [the] school of hard mishap, driven from [the] ease of Fortune's lap ..., New to the school of hard mishap, driven from the ease of Fortune's lap, and New to ye school of hard mishap, driven from ye ease of Fortune's lap
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of verses below image., Brevigraphs in title sometimes incorrectly rendered "ye" expanded as [the]., Added title and state from Paulson., "Plate 5"--Lower right corner., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.8 x 41 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 12 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
St. Marylebone Church (Marylebone, London, England)
Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice; behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke are pouring over the panelling and through the door (left); to right, a highwayman (a gun and mask in his pocket) sits beside the hearth ignoring a small boy who offers him a drink, on the wall is a handbill advertising "R. Tustian Card Maker" -- British Museum online catalogue. On the lower left, a man is entering a note of a loan to Lord Cogg for £500. A dog with a color "Covent Gar[den]" barks at Tom
Alternative Title:
Gold, thou bright son of Phoebus, sourse of universal intercourse ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verses below image., "Plate 6"--Lower right corner., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 13 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Golden Head in Leichester Fields London
Plate 14. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 14. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
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
Alternative Title:
Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch and A rake's progress
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., and Leaf 14 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Debt, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, and Unmarried mothers
