Updated 01 December 2021
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (2)
Date | 1735,first published |
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Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
Size(cm) | 35.5 x 40.7 |
Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, / Most pleasing, when she most beguiles,) / How soom, Sweet foe, can all thy Train / Of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain, / Enter the unprovided Mind, / And Memory in fetters bind; / Load faith and Love with golden chain, / And sprinkle Lethe o're the Brain! / Pleasure on her silver Throne / Smiling comes, nor comes alone; / Venus moves with her along, / And smooth Lyceus, ever-young; / And in their Train, to fill the Press, / Come apish Dance, and swolen Excess, / Mechanic Honour, vicious Taste, / And fashion in her changing Vest. |
Standard ref. | Paulson 133 (5/5) |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1994-0005 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 151.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 30.(in Japanese)
- 1987
- The Exhibition of British Caricature from Hogarth to Hockney (exh cat.). 24 October - 13 December 1987. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1987, cat. no. 13
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 133.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 25, cat. no. 14
- 1996
- Hogarth and the Shows of London (exh. cat.). Stevens, Andrew. Madison, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996, cat. no. 18.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.