[A rake's progress]. [Plate 8] [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 1].

Published/Created:

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

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; sheet 34.3 x 40.6 cm

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Notes:

Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
State 1: etched state proof before letters.
Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.

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?

Topics:

Asylums.
Mental institutions.
Mentally ill persons.
Parables.
Rake's progress.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--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:

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Call Number:

733.06.25.08.3+
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

12626614

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26130b

Citation:

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

OID:

16193942

PID:

digcoll:4048407