A Rake's Progress, Plate 2 (Primary Title)
A Rake's Progress (Series Title)
William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764 (Artist)
Printed beneath image, lower center: "Invented by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June ye. 25, 1735."; lower right: "Plate 2d". Printed in lower margin: "Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles,/ Most Pleasing, when she most beguiles,)/ How soon, Sweet foe, can all thy Train/ Of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain, // Enter the unprovided Mind,/ And Memory in fetters bind;/ Load faith and Love with golden chain,/ And Sprinkle Lethe o're the Brain! // Pleasure on her silver Throne/ Smiling comes, nor comes alone;/ Venus moves with her along; / And smooth Lyaeus, ever young; // And in their Train, to fill the Press,/ Come apish Dance, and swolen Excess,/ Mechanic Hounour, vicious Taste,/ And fashion in her changing Vest." Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
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