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A Rake's Progress, Plate 7 (Primary Title)
A Rake's Progress (Series Title)

William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764 (Artist)

1735
English
Works On Paper
Prints
etching and engraving on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN/ 1820
European Art
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 25 5/8 in. (49.05 × 65.09 cm)
Plate: 14 × 16 in. (35.56 × 40.64 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (31.75 × 38.42 cm)
2008.67
Not on view
Printed beneath image: "Happy the Man, whose constant Thought/ (Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,)/ Can send Remembrance back to fetch/ Treasures from Life's earliest Stretch: // Who Self-approving can review/ Scenes of past Virtues that Shine thro'/ The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray,/ To Gild the Evening of his Day! // Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd:/ No Pleasures meet his roving Mind,/ No Blessings fetch'd from early Youth,/ But broken Faith, & wrested Truth,// Talents idle, & unus'd,/ And every Gift of Heaven abus'd,-/ In Seas of sad Reflection lost,/ From Horrors still to Horrors tost, // Reason the Vessel leaves to Steer,/ And Gives the Helm to mad Despair.// Invented &c. by Wm Hogarth & Publish'd,/ According to Act of Parliament June ye 25. 1735." Printed lower left: "Plate 7" Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
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