Updated 16 January 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (3)
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: O Vanity of Youthfull Blood, / So by Misuse to poison Good! / Woman, form'd for Social Love, / Fairest Gift of Powers above! / Source of every Houshold Blessing, / All Charms in Innocence possessing: / But turn'd to Vice, all Plagues above, / Foe to thy Being, Foe to Love! / Guest Divine to outward Viewing, / Abler Minister of Ruin! / And Thou, no less of Gift divine, / Sweet Poison of Misused Wine! / With Freedom led to every Part, / And secret Chamber of ye Heart; / Dost Thou thy friendly Host betray, / And Shew thy riotous Gang ye way, / To enter in with covert Treason, / O'erthrow the drowsy Guard of Reason, / To ransack the abandon'd Place, / And revel there with wild Excess? |
Standard ref. | Paulson 134 (2/3) |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1994-0006 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Exhibition History
- 1999
- Goya: his time and his uniqueness, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 January 1999 - 7 March 1999, cat. no. 112
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 152.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 31.(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. 14
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 134.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 26, 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. 19.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 95, 181, cat. no. Y2_58 | T2_61, col. repr.