[A rake's progress]. [Plate 8] [graphic] / invented &c. by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd according to act of Parliament, June [the] 25, 1735 ; retouch'd by the author 1763.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 3].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
[1763] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 347 x 392 mm
- Notes:
- Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of verse etched below image.
Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum. - Abstract:
- A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman and a warder; in the background, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall). Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on to his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude and an image of the reverse of a coin, lettered "Britannia/1763", and the name of a well-known prostitute, Betty Careless.
- Variant Titles:
- Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
- Topics:
- Asylums.
Mental institutions.
Mentally ill persons.
Parables. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1735.
Etchings--England--London--1735.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1735. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird
12K(b)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 12K(b) Box 210 - Orbis Record:
- 9866482
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26132
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2246
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139 - OID:
- 16193945
- PID:
- digcoll:4048361
