published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751. and [between 1790 and 1835]
Call Number:
Print20074
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the o...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth and publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, and Pregnant women
"Men with a plague-cart burying victims at night in a field, one to left using a long hooked pole to pull the corpses from the cart into a pit; in a neo-classical frame; illustration to Barnard's 'History of England'." -- from British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Mass burials, Dead persons, Night, Pipe smoking, Grave digging, Horses, and Carts & wagons
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 aristoc...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 2, Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing when she most beguiles) ..., and Surrounded by artists and professors
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Harpsichords, Interiors, Merchants, Musicians, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice; behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke are pouring over the panelling and through...
Alternative Title:
Gold, thou bright son of Phoebus, sourse of universal intercourse ... and Scene in a gaming house
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Golden Head in Leichester Fields London and publisher not identified
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, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall)....
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art? and Scene in a madhouse
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Psychotherapy patients, Hospitals, Psychiatric hospitals, Restraint of patients, Interiors, Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
