Updated 01 December 2021
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (4)
| Date | 1735,first published |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 35.6 x 40.7 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: O Vanity of Youthfull Blood, / So by Misuse to poison Good! / Reason awakes, & views unbar'd / The sacred Gates he watch'd to guard; / Approaching views the Harpy Law, / And Poverty with icy Paw / Ready to seize the poor Remains / That Vice hath left of all his Gains, / Cold Penitence, lame After-Thought, / With Fears, Despair, & Horrors fraught, / Call back his guilty Peasures dead, / Whom he hath wrong'd, & whome betray'd. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 135 (1/3) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0007 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 154.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 32.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 135.
- 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. 20.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.