print;
satirical print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1855,1208.63
- Description
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Frontispiece to "The Progress of a Rake: or, the Templar's Exit" (1732): satire on a dissolute life showing a young man in his bedroom, partially dressed, having just risen with a hangover. He holds the front of his shirt in his hand lamenting the discovery of signs of venereal disease; behind is a drop-leaf table on which lies a copy of Rochester's Poems, a window with curtains falling from a pelmet, a framed impression of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, Plate 3 (Paulson 123), below which hangs the man's wig, a chair and a tester bed, unmade; a chamber pot, hat and broken sword rest on the floor.
Etching
- Production date
- 1732
- Dimensions
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Height: 157 millimetres
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Width: 99 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- "The Progress of a Rake" was published as "By the Author of The Harlot's Progress", presumably "The Lure of Venus; or a Harlot's Progress ... by Mr Joseph Gay", the author's name referring back to a pseudonym invented around 1717 by Edmund Curll in allusion to John Gay; one of the writers who used the name was John Durant Breval.
This impression was removed from a copy of the book, which is now kept at pressmark 1.a.6.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Progress of a Rake: or, the Templar's Exit. In Ten Cantos; in Hudibrastick Verse &c By the Author of 'The Harlot's Progress'
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,1208.63
