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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1735]
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 9+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., Added title from first line of text., Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Horlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ...", and 'Plate 2d'--Lower right below image.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d