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A Rake's Progress, Plate 1 (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 1/4 × 27 5/8 in. (48.9 × 70.17 cm)
Plate: 14 1/16 × 16 in. (35.72 × 40.64 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (31.75 × 38.42 cm)
2008.61
Not on view
Printed beneath image: "O Vanity of Age, untoward,/ Ever spleeny, ever froward!/ Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains,/ Squint suspicions, jealous Pains? // Why, thy toilsom Journey o'er,/ Lay'st thou in an useless store?/ Hope along with Time is flown,/ Nor canst thou reap y.e Field thou'st sown. // Hast Thou a son? In Time be wise-/ He viens thy Toil with other Eyes-/ Needs must thy kind, paternal care,/ Lock'd in thy chests, by buried there.// Whence then shall flow y.t friendly Ease,/ That social Converse, homefelt Peace,/ Familiar Duty without Dread,/ Instruction from Example bred. // That youthfull Mind with Freedom mend,/ And with y.e Father mix the Friend?/ Invented Painted & Engraved by Wm. Hogarth, &/ Publish'd June y.e 25 1735. According to Act/ of Parliament. __ Plate. 1." Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
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