[A rake's progress]. [Plate 7] [graphic] / invented &c by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd according to act of Parliament June [the] 25 1735.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 3].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[25 June 1735] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 35 x 40 cm
- Notes:
- Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
"Plate 7"--Added at the bottom left.
Added title from first lines of verses below image. - Abstract:
- "A room in the Fleet Prison (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); Tom sits at a table, to right, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Happy the man whose constant thought (tho' in the school of hardship taught,) can send remembrance back to fetch
A rake's progress. - Topics:
- Children.
Debt.
Jails.
Parables.
Poverty.
Rake's progress.
Unmarried mothers. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1735.
Etchings--England--London--1735.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1735. - Format:
- Image
- 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
11K(b)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 11K(b) Box 205
Sotheby 14+ Box 200 - Orbis Record:
- 9866461
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26129a
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2236
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 138 - OID:
- 16193939
- PID:
- digcoll:4048321
