[A rake's progress]. Plate 3 [graphic] / invented, painted, engrav'd & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth June [the] 24, 1735, according to act of Parliment [sic].
- Edition:
- [State 1].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[24 June 1735] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 356 x 407 mm, on sheet 383 x 433 mm
- Notes:
- Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image.
Caption in five columns below image.
"Plate 3."--Lower right.
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-10. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909. - 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, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to right., a harpist and a door through which enter 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."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above
- Associated Names:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
- Topics:
- Blacks
Fighting
Harps
Interiors
Intoxication
Musicians
Parables
Prostitutes
Robberies
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Street entertainers
Taverns (Inns)
Vandalism - 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:
- Sotheby 10+ Box 200
- Orbis Record:
- 9931616
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr22208
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 16030525
- PID:
- digcoll:2808271
