[A rake's progress]. [Plate 1] [graphic] / invented, painted & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth, & publish'd June [the] 25, 1735.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 4].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[25 June 1735] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching ; sheet 35.2 x 39.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title, imprint, and state from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of caption. Cf. Paulson
Description based on imperfect impression;
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- 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; 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 as seen in 2nd state, but now removed) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out.
- Variant Titles:
- O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever froward ...
- Topics:
- Cats.
Debt.
Interiors.
Lawyers.
Memorial rites & ceremonies.
Miserliness.
Mothers.
Pregnant women.
Puns (Visual works)
Rake's progress.
Robberies.
Servants.
Tailors. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1735.
Etchings--England--London--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
7K(b)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 7K(b) Box 205 - Orbis Record:
- 9865344
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26120b
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2158
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 132 - OID:
- 16193925
- PID:
- digcoll:4048325
