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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 15 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
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., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 15 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
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., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 355 x 408 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
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., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 77 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate mark: 34.6 x 39.7 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
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., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 77 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate mark: 35.2 x 39.7 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
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.
"Satire on the popularity of masquerades and the decline of Italian opera in London with caricatures of the singers Cuzzoni, the tall, thin "scarecrow" Farinelli and the impresario Heidegger who points to a grenadier's cap hanging on the wall. Farinelli holds a chain attached to a shackle around his ankle, referring to one of his roles; two masks lie at Heidegger's feet. The verses etched below, supposedly in Heidegger's words, state he is more likely to return to the regiment than are "midnight revels" and "Ridottos" to fail."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from British Museum catalogue., With eight lines of English verse below beginning: Thou tunefull scarecrow & thou warbling bird, No shelter for your notes, these lands afford, This town protects no more the sing-song strain ... And save from ruin this harmonious face., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 43 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand below: Imputed to Hogarth; but in reality designed by the Countess of Burlington, and edited by Goupy.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748., Farinelli, 1705-1782., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Churchill (right) in the form of a huge bear, wearing clerical neck-bands, as in Hogarth's "The Bruiser", turns a snarling fiercely at a small dog (Hogarth) like his Trump. The bear has one raised paw and the other rests on a piece of paper entitled "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth", beside a pen and ink well. The dog barks back at the bear, his front paws rest on an artist's palette with the words "Line of beauty" written across it. Etching in the left background, are the words "Pannel Painting."
Alternative Title:
Poet and the painter
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Additional title from local card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 291 in volume 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764 and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
