- Published / Created:
- March 25, 1768.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 768.03.25.02+ Box 210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy (not reversed) of the first state of Plate 2 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 133): a fashionable interior 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 (said to be named Dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master (John Essex?), a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey.--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rake's progress. Plate 2 and To recompense the Sire's continu'd fast, ...
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., "Plate 2"--Lower right, below image., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the second 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., Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.7 x 36.5 cm)., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image and plate number.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Farinelli, 1705-1782., Dubois (Fencer),, Bridgeman, Charles, -1738., Essex, John,, and Figg, James, -1734.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Robberies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Attended by his levee in London [graphic].
You Searched For
1 - 2 of 2
Search Results
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 25 June 1735]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- 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 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 ..."
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, state, and imprint from Paulson., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom margin of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson., Ms. note in ink (another hand?) below image at right: Scotin fe: aqua fortis., and On page 67 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Farinelli, 1705-1782., Dubois (Fencer),, Bridgeman, Charles, -1738., Essex, John,, and Figg, James, -1734.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic]. [Plate 2]