A dishevelled Tom Rakewell in the gambling house, the obsessed gamblers are unaware of a fire breaking out in the wainscoting. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Date:
- Feby. 1st. 1797
- Reference:
- 39251i
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At the centre is the rake, who having lost all his wife's fortune, has knocked over his chair and fallen to his knees, wigless and frantic, with the dog barking at him
Publication/Creation
London (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson, Feby. 1st. 1797.
Physical description
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 31.4 x 38.5 cm
Lettering
Gold, thou bright son of Phoebus, source of universal intercourse; of weeping virtue sweet redress, and blessing those who live to bless...Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook.
Lettering continues:...yet oft behold this sacred trust the fool of avaritious lust, no longer bond of human kind, but bane of every virtuous mind...
Bears number: Pl. VI
References note
R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, related to [137]
Reference
Wellcome Collection 39251i
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