[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 8]

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Title: [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 8]
Alternative Title: Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
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 scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Description: Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image.
Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.
Leaf 15 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 355 x 405 mm, on sheet 379 x 430 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English