[A rake's progress]. Plate 1 [graphic] / invented, painted, engrav'd & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth June [the] 25, 1735, according to act of Parliament.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

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

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 357 x 408 mm, on sheet 379 x 431 mm

Related Links:

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

Notes:

Title, imprint, and state from Paulson.
Added title from first line of text.
"Plate 1."--Lower right corner, below imprint.
Caption in five columns, below image: "O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..."
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image.
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-8. 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:

"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 whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; 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) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out"--British Museum catalogue online.

Variant Titles:

O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Avarice
Cats
Corruption
Ethics
Interiors
Miserliness
Mothers
Parables
Pregnant women
Rake's progress
Servants
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Tailors
Young adults

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1735
Etchings -- England -- London -- 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 8+ Box 200

Orbis Record:

11307027

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22206

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030523

PID:

digcoll:2808268