Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].

Description

Title: Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
Alternative Title: Rake's progress. Plate 7
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Hoadly, John, 1711-1776.
Bakewell, Thomas, -1749, publisher.
Published / Created: according to act of Parliament, July 1735.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
Abstract: "Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text engraved above image.
Verses, attributed to John Hoadly, below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, And scenes of anguish in a jail succeed ... Can his person from restraint enlarge.
The seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90.
"Plate 7."--Lower right below design.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; January 2021.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.5 x 31 cm, on sheet 31.2 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English