[A rake's progress]. [Plate 8] [graphic] / invented &c. by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd according to act of Parliament, June [the] 25, 1735.

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[25 June 1735]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 355 x 405 mm, on sheet 379 x 430 mm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2246
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139

Notes:

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.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 355 x 408 mm.

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, 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.

Variant Titles:

Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Asylums
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Parables
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Rake's progress
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

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 12K(a) Box 210

Orbis Record:

9931702

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22353

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030678

PID:

digcoll:2807195