A rake, Tom Rakewell, is measured for new clothes while a servant is hanging the room in black to show mourning. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

London (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson, June 2nd. 1796.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 31.2 x 38.3 cm

O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever forward! Why those bolts, & massy chains, squint... Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook Lettering continues:..Suspicious, jealous pains? Why, thy toilsom journey o'er, lay'st thou in an useless store? Hope along with time is flown, Nor canst thou reap ye field thou'st sown.... Bears number: Pl. I

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, related to [132]

Wellcome Collection 39247i

The series of paintings "A rake's progress" is in the Soane Museum, London