41.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1735]
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 15 + Box 200
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 15. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
- 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., and After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / [Plate 8]
