[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]

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Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 2]
Alternative Title: Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing, when she most beguiles,) ...
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [25 June 1735]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey
Description: Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of caption below image.
Sheet trimmed to image with caption from 4th state pasted on.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark sheet 356 x 407 mm
Edition: [State 3?].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1735
Engravings England London 1735
Etchings England London 1735
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bridgeman, Charles, -1738.
Farinelli, 1705-1782.
Figg, James, -1734.
Subject (Topic): Harpsichords
Horse racing
Gardeners
Boxers
Musicians
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Bridgeman, Charles, -1738
Farinelli, 1705-1782
Figg, James, -1734
Harpsichords
Horse racing
Gardeners
Boxers
Musicians
Clothing & dress > 1830-1840
England > 1735
England > London > 1735
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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