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[A rake's progress]. Plate 3
Title
[A rake's progress]. Plate 3 [graphic] / invented, painted, engrav'd, & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth June [the] 25 1735 according to act of Parliment [sic].
Edition
[State 2].
Publication
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [25 June 1735]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 328 x 406 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Description based on entry in Paulson.
"Plate 3"--Lower right corner.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to image with loss of text and imprint.
Exhibited: "James Gillray's Hogarthian Progresses" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, April 2016 - September 2016.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Summary
A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background; one woman drinks from the punchbowl; another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to the right, a harpist and a door through which enters a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged.
Variant and related titles
First line of text: O vanity of youthfull blood ...
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2188
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 134
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1735.
Engravings - England - London - 1735.
Etchings - England - London - 1735.
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