Attended by his levee in London [graphic].

Copyright Date:

March 25, 1768.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm and plate mark 26.2 x 31 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 44.7 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr38200

Notes:

"Plate 2"--Lower right, below image.
A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the second of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90.
Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735.
The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm).
Title from text engraved above image.

Abstract:

Copy (not reversed) of the first state of Plate 2 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 133): a fashionable interior with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master (said to be named Dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master (John Essex?), a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey.--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Rake's progress.
To recompense the Sire's continu'd fast, ...

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1730-1740.
Harpsichords.
Interiors.
Merchants.
Musicians.
Puns (Visual works)
Rake's progress.
Robberies.
Servants.
Tailors.

Topics:

Bakewell, Thomas, -1749, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2014003357
Bridgeman, Charles,---1738.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78079606
Dubois--(Fencer),--depicted.
Essex, John,--depicted.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81054200
Farinelli,--1705-1782.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89657076
Figg, James,---1734.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126106
Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2006008112

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1768.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1768.

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:

Hogarth 768.03.25.02+

Orbis Record:

14831662

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38200

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2174

OID:

16873207

PID:

digcoll:4848277