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[A rake's progress]. Plate 5
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Title
[A rake's progress]. Plate 5 [graphic] / invented, painted & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd June [the] 25, 1735, according to act of Parliament.
Edition
[State 1].
Published
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [25 June 1735]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 355 x 406 mm, on sheet 378 x 431 mm
Notes
Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first line of verses below image.
Brevigraphs in title sometimes incorrectly rendered "ye" expanded as [the].
Added title and state from Paulson.
"Plate 5"--Lower right corner.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
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 Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
Summary
Tom and a wealthy old woman are being married in the dilapidated church of St. Marylebone. The bride has only one eye and growths on her forehead; the IHS on the wall behind her serve as a mock halo. In contrast the old woman is attended by a beautiful young woman who has already caught Tom's eye. In the background on the left, the elderly pew opener pushes Sarah Young, carrying Tom's child in her arms, and Sarah's mother; she shakes her keys in their faces to prevent them from entering the church to stop the marriage. Two dogs in the lower left of the image mirror the courtship of Tom and his bride; the courted dog has only one eye. The clergyman is assisted at the altar by a clerk, and a charity-boy kneels at the bride's feet offering a hassock. The Poor Box on the left is covered with a cobweb; there is a crack down the center of the slab with the Commandments on the wall behind the clergyman.
Variant and related titles
First line of text New to [the] school of hard mishap, driven from [the] ease of Fortune's lap ...
New to the school of hard mishap, driven from the ease of Fortune's lap
New to ye school of hard mishap, driven from ye ease of Fortune's lap
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2211
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 136
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1735.
Engravings - England - London - 1735.
Etchings - England - London - 1735.
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