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Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ..
Title
Farewell Old Gripe! they work is done ... [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1735]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving & etching ; sheet 326 x 376 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from verses below image. Verses (in four columns, each with six lines) continue: " ... And thou hast left graceless son to wast thy fund of ill got stores .... plate, gloves and hoarded cash descend."
See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2259-2272.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 132.
Summary
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's first plate in the Rake's Progress series; the 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 bag of coins to the pregnant Sarah Young; to the right a table with the papers related to the estate and coins; on the floor are boxes of miscellaneous goods; an upholsterer attaching fabric to the wall reveals a hiding place for coins which tumble out.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2013
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1735.
Engravings - England - London - 1735.
Etchings - England - London - 1735.
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