[A rake's progress]. Plate 3 [graphic] / invented, painted, engrav'd, & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth June [the] 25 1735 according to act of Parliment [sic].
- Edition:
- [State 2].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[25 June 1735] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 328 x 406 mm.
- Notes:
- Description based on entry in Paulson.
"Plate 3"--Lower right corner.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image with loss of text and imprint.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826). - 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.
- Variant Titles:
- O vanity of youthfull blood
- Associated Names:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist] - Topics:
- Blacks
Interiors
Intoxication
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Musicians
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Prostitutes
Rake's progress
Robberies
Servants
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Taverns (Inns) - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings -- England -- London -- 1735
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1735
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1735 - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 8K(b) Box 205
- Orbis Record:
- 9866322
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr22346
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 16030671
- PID:
- digcoll:2807183