Updated 01 December 2021
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (6)
Date | 1735,first published |
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Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
Size(cm) | 35.6 x 40.9 |
Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: Gold, Thou bright Son of Phoebus, Sourse / Of Universal INtercourse; / Of weeping Virtue Sweet Redress, / And blessing Those who live to bless; / Yet oft behold this Sacred Trust / The Fool of Avaritious Lust. / No longer Bond of Humankind, / But Bane of every virtuous Mind. / What Chaos such Misuse attends! / Friendship Stoops to prey on Friends; / Health, that gives Relish to Delight, / Is wasted with ye Wasting Night: / Doubt & Mistrust are thrown on Heaven, / And all its Power to Chance is given. / Sad Purchace, of repentant Tears, / Of needless Quarrels, endless Fears, / Of Hopes of Moments, Pangs of Years! / Sad Purchace, of a torture'd Mind, / To an imprison'd Body join'd! |
Standard ref. | Paulson 137 (2/3) |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1994-0009 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 158.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 34.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 137.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 27, 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. 22.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.