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., and "Plate 3"--Lower left corner.
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., and On page 60 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 31.6 x 38.5 cm.
Group portrait of nine men seated around a table set with fruit and decanters; they are served by a black page. Boswell is on the left, with Johnson to his right talking to Edmund Burke; Reynolds is seated across from Johnson and listens with a trumpet to his ear. Garrick to the left of Reynolds faces the viewer, while Pasquale Paoli to his left observes Johnson conversing at the far end of the table. Charles Burney across from Paoli also follows the same conversation, as he rests his right hand on his chin. Next to Paoli, Warton leans toward Oliver Goldsmith who sits at the head of the table on the right; Warton holds his hand up towards his mouth as if to keep his words confidential. The room is richly decorated with a Japanese screen on the right, curtains, a miniature portrait, and a portrait bust on a pedestal on the left; Reynolds' pictures of Puck (Mannings 2142) and the Infant Academy (Mannings 2092) hanging on the wall and a bright chandelier hangs above the table
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum., Also etched below is a facsimilie the nine individuals' signatures., and Tear badly repaired with tape, lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published July 1st 1848 by the proprietors Wm. Walker, 64 Margaret St., Cavendish Sqre., & Owen Bailey, 128 Seymour St. Euston Sqre
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
"The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out"--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward!
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1."--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: "O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ...", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out."--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward! ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1"--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image., and Sheet 355 x 405 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out."--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward! ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1"--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at top of page above this print: Rake's progress, 1st impression., and On page 66 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 34.7 x 39.6 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
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, and state from Paulson., 'Plate 2d.'--Lower right below image., Four columns of four lines each etched below image: Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, Most pelasing,w hen she most beguiles,) ..., 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.
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 40.9 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 10 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
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., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image; separate caption and imprint mount below.
