
A Rake's Progress, Plate 5 (Primary Title)
A Rake's Progress (Series Title)
William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764 (Artist)
Printed beneath image: "New to ye School of hard Mishap,/ Driven from ye Ease of Fortune's Lap, // What Shames will Nature not embrace,/ T'avoid less Shame of lean Distress? // Gold can the Charms of youth bestow,/ And mask Deformity with Shew; // Gold can avert ye Sting of Shame,/ In Winter's Arms create a Flame, // Can couple Youth with hoary Age,/ And make Antipathies engage. // Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm Hogarth & Publish'd June ye 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament.__ Plate 5." Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
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