- Published / Created:
- March 25, 1768.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 768.03.25.05+ Box 210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 5 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 136): Tom and a wealthy old woman are being married in the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone. The bride has only one eye and growths on her forehead; the IHS on the wall behind her serve as a mock halo. In contrast the old woman is attended by a beautiful young woman who has already caught Tom's eye. In the background on the left, the elderly pew opener pushes Sarah Young, carrying Tom's child in her arms, and Sarah's mother; she shakes her keys in their faces to prevent them from entering the church to stop the marriage. Two dogs in the lower left of the image mirror the courtship of Tom and his bride; the courted dog has only one eye. The clergyman is assisted at the altar by a clerk, and a charity-boy kneels at the bride's feet offering a hassock. The Poor Box on the left is covered with a cobweb; there is a crack down the center of the slab with the Commandments on the wall behind the clergyman
- Alternative Title:
- Rake's progress. Plate 5 and Youth to reimburse his squander'd gold
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., "Plate 5"--Lower right below design., Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: The youth to reimburse his squander'd gold, ..., 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)., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the fifth 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., and Ornamental borders partially obscure image on the left and last word on the right.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- St. Marylebone Church (Marylebone, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Brides, Churches, Clergy, Dogs, Fighting, Grooms (Weddings), Rake's progress, Weddings, and Wedding attendants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > He marries a rich old widow [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1768]
- Call Number:
- 768.07.00.02 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An illustration to the Oxford Magazine, July 1768: satire on unequal marriage, showing the interior of a church in which an old man and a much younger woman stand before the altar; a clergyman stands behind the communion rail holding open a large book and saying “Thy Wife shall be as the fruitful Vine” . The man says “With my Body I thee Worship”. The tops of two bottles protrude from his pocket, one labelled “T[incture] of Cantharides” and the other “Viper Drops”, both reputed aphrodisiacs. Behind the couple stand a woman holding up a bottle of “Mrs Gibson’s Blessed Medicine” and a lawyer carrying under one arm a “Deed of Settlement Provision for Younger Children”, behind him two young men snigger, one pointing towards the bottles in the bridegroom’s pocket. On the wall at the back of the church is a tablet lettered “Near this Place lies the Body of Thos Steril, Esq Aged 92, who died of a Broken Heart a few Days after his Marriage with a Young Lady”."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., One of text below image: Last Saturday was married at Horn-church, Thos. Feeble, Esqr. aged 90, to Miss Frisky, aged 16. -- Daily adv., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 37., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Oxford magazine
- Subject (Topic):
- Altars, Churches, Clergy, Couples, Lawyers, Marriage, and Medicines
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ridiculous match [graphic].