A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., State 1: etched state proof before letters., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Sold at Gulston Auction for £5-7-6. In pencil on lower margin of print: aquafortis print., Print is lined, multiple losses to margins with some repairs., and On page 76 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
Plate 15. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman and a warder; in the background, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall). Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on to his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude and an image of the reverse of a coin, lettered "Britannia/1763", and the name of a well-known prostitute, Betty Careless
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 78 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate: 355 x 405 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
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 ..."
Description:
Title, printmaker, state, and imprint from Paulson., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom margin of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson., Ms. note in ink (another hand?) below image at right: Scotin fe: aqua fortis., and On page 67 in volume 1.
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's eighth plate in the Rake's Progress series: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress restrained by attendants; two women revive a fainting Sarah Young (right). Tom's old wife looks at herself in a hand mirror (left). The wall to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Soon hurried thro' a course of vice ...
Description:
Title from original as cited by Paulson. Added titel from first line of verse etched below image. Verses (in four columns six lines each) continue: " ... with sots & panders, whores & dice, his mind by jarring passions tost ... with superstitions fears sit quaking, or combat devils of their own making.", Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2257., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139., and Mounted to: 353 x 435 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, Parables, and Rake's progress
