[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2dHogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker[25 June 1735]engA 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 at a harpsichord (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. In the background on the left in an antechamber, a man holds a letter entitled "Epistle to Rake ..."Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.Fifth state; the floor under the dancing master's feet has been darkened, his coat under his violin has added hatching, and the fold of Rakewell's dressing gown behind the violin is now crosshatched.Caption below image in four columns begins: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles), how soon, sweet foe, can all they train of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain ..."'Plate 2d'--Lower right below image.1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.9 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.Leaf 9 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.