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A Rake's Progress, Plate 4. (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 1/16 × 16 in. (35.72 × 40.64 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (31.75 × 38.74 cm)
2008.64
Not on view
Printed beneath image: "O Vanity of youthfull Blood,/ So by Misuse to poison Good!/ Reason awakes, & views unbar'd/ The sacred Gates he watch'd to guard; // Approaching views the Harpy Law,/ And Poverty with icy Paw // Ready to seize the poor Remains/ That Vice hath left of all his Gains. // Cold Penitence, lame After-Thought,/ With Fears, Despair, & Horrors fraught, // Call back his guilty Pleasures dead,/ Whom he hath wrong'd, & whom betray'd. // Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd June ye. 25, 1735. According to Act of Parliament.__ Plate 4." Inscribed in graphite upper left: "29"
Bequest of Janet C. Green
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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