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.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Date:
June 2nd. 1796
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39247i
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The group around Rakewell consists of a lawyer, two servants, a pregnant girl with a wedding ring and her irate mother

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

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

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Lettering

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

References note

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39247i

Reproduction note

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

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