"The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out"--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward!
Description:
Title, imprint, and state from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1."--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: "O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ...", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
"The Jacobean interior of the house of Tom Rakewell's late father (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom being measured for a suit as he gives a handful of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; behind him sits a lawyer compiling inventories whilst stealing from the coins on the desk; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods, piles of mortgages, indentures, bond certificates and other documents; an old woman brings faggots to light a fire and an upholsterer attaching fabric (purchased from William Tothall of Covent Garden) to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out."--British Museum catalogue online
Alternative Title:
O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever, froward! ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first line of text., "Plate 1"--Lower right corner, below imprint., Caption in five columns, below image: O Vanity of age, untoward, Ever spleeny, ever, froward![sic] Why those bolts, & massy chains, Squint suspicious jealous pains? ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image. Caption and imprint mounted separately below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at top of page above this print: Rake's progress, 1st impression., and On page 66 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 34.7 x 39.6 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Cats, Corruption, Ethics, Interiors, Miserliness, Mothers, Pregnant women, Rake's progress, Servants, Tailors, and Young adults
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details of three men and one woman, after characters on the left edge under the flag in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A man smoking a pipe (upside-down) as he pushes the head of a large woman (3) toward her companion, a young gentleman (2); 4. The Quaker Abel Squat reads a sheet of paper on which is written, "April 1 1754 I promise to pay to Abel Squat the sum of fifty pounds six months after date value re[cei]ved Rich[ard] Slim
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other plates in this series in the British Museum catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Couples, Kissing, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
