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Currently not on display

William Hogarth

London, 1697 - London, 1764

<A Rake's Progress>: (8)

Date 1735,first published
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving
Size(cm) 35.4 x 40.7
Inscriptions Inscribed in bottom margin: Madness, Thou Chaos of ye Brain, / What art? That Pleasure giv'st, and Pain? / Tyranny of Fancy's Reign! / Mechanic Fancy; that can build / Vast Labarynths, & Mazes wild, / With Rule disjointed, Shapless Measure, Fill'd with Horror, fill'd with Pleasure! / Shapes of Horror, that wou'd eaven / Cast Doubt of Mercy upon Heaven. / Shapes of Pleasure, that but Seen / Wou'd spilt the Shaking Sides of Spleen. / O Vanity of Age! here see / The Stamp of Heaven effac'd by Thee - / The headstromg Course of Youth thus run, / What Comfort from this darling Son! / His rattling Chains with Terror hear, / Behold Death grappling with Despaire ; / See Him by Thee to Ruin Sold, / And curse thy self, & curse thy Gold.
Standard ref. Paulson 139 (2/3)
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1994-0011

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.

Bibliography

1968
Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 163.
1981
Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 36.(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. 15
1989
Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 139.
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. 24.
1997
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.

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