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[A rake's progress]. Plate 6
Title
[A rake's progress]. Plate 6 [graphic] / invented, painted & engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd June [the] 25, 1735, according to act of Parliament.
Edition
[State 2].
Publication
[London] : Sold at [the] Golden Head in Leichester Fields London, [25 June 1735]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 356 x 407 mm, on sheet 378 x 431 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Added title from first lines of verses below image.
"Plate 6"--Lower right corner.
After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
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).
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
Interior of a gambling house in Covent Garden where Tom has fallen, raving, on one knee having lost his money at dice; behind him a chaotic group of gamblers, most of whom fail to notice that flames and smoke are pouring over the panelling and through the door (left); to right, a highwayman (a gun and mask in his pocket) sits beside the hearth ignoring a small boy who offers him a drink, on the wall is a handbill advertising "R. Tustian Card Maker" -- British Museum online catalogue. On the lower left, a man is entering a note of a loan to Lord Cogg for £500. A dog with a color "Covent Gar[den]" barks at Tom.
Variant and related titles
First line of text Gold, thou bright son of Phoebus, sourse of universal intercourse ...
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2223
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 137
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1735.
Engravings - England - London - 1735.
Etchings - England - London - 1735.
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