Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<A Rake's Progress>: (7)
| Date | 1735,first published |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 35.2 x 40.5 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: Happy the Man, whose constant Thought / (Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,) / Can send Remembrance back to fetch / Treasures from Life's earliest Stretch' / Who Self-approving can review / Scenes of past Virtues that Shine thro' / The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray, / To glid the Evening of his Day! / Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd:/ No Pleasures meet his roving Mind, / No Blessings fetch'd from early Youth, / But broken Faith, & wrested Truth, / Talents idle, & unus'd, / And every Gift of Heaven abus'd, - / In Seas of Sad Reflection lost, / From Horrors still to Horrors tost, / Reason the Vessel leaves to steer, / And gives the Helm to mad Despair. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 138 (3/4) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0010 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 160.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 35.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 138.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 28, 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. 23.
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.