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- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1735]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.00.00.20+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with considerable differences: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, "Nanny" offering a handful of money to reprieve her former lover, and a lamp-lighter carelessly spilling oil on the Rake's coat; in the distance to left, a group of street-boys point to "Taffy", a mannikin, perched on a lamp-post, and beyond the gate of St James's Palace."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker and publisher from the Wellcome Collection online catalogue, Wellcome Library no. 38342i., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse beneath title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Window mounted to 29 x 44 cm.
- Publisher:
- John Bowles
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint James Westminster, London, England : Parish),
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Debt, Ethnic stereotypes, Lampposts, Law enforcement, Puppets, Rake's progress, Sedan chairs, and Street lights
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Going to court he's arrested at St. James's Gate [graphic].