Updated 04 July 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (5)
| Date | 1735,first published |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 35.4 x 40.6 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: New to ye School of hard Mishap, / Driven from ye Ease of Fortune's Lap, / What Shames will Nature not embrace, / T'avoid less Shame of lean Distress? / Gold can the Charmes of youth bestow, / And mask Deformity with Shew; / Gold can avert ye Sting of Shame, / In Winter's Arms create a Flame, / Can couple Youth with hoary Age, / And make Antipathies engage. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 136 (1/3) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0008 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1965
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 1st complete ed, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965, cat. no. 136, repr.
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 156.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 33.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 136.
- 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. 21.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.