Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (1)
| Date | 1735,first published |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 35.6 x 40.8 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: O Vanity of Age, untoward, / Ever Spleeny, ever froward! / Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains, / Squint Suspicions, jealous Pains? / Why, thy toilsom Journey o'er, / Lay'st thou in an useless Store? / Hope along with Time is flown, / Nor canst thou reap ye Field thou'st sown. / Hast Thou a Son? In Time be wise - / He views thy Toil with other Eyes - / Needs must thy kind, paternal Care, / Lock'd in thy Chests, be buried there: / Whence then shall flow yt friendly East, / That social Converse, homefele Peace, Familiar Duty without Dread, / Instruction from Example bred, / That youthful Mind with Freedom mend, / And with ye Father mix the Freind? |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 132 (2/4) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0004 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 148.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 29. (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. 12
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 132.
- 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. 17.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.