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:
Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ... and Surrounded by artists and professors
Description:
Title and state 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., Restrike of the fifth state of the plate, which was issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was later reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson., 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 ...", and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric -- Insanity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
