Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<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.