print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1858,0417.559
- Title
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Object: A Rake's Progress, Plate 2
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Series: A Rake's Progress
- Description
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A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master (said to be named Dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master (said to be John Essex), a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey. 1735
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1735
- Dimensions
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Height: 358 millimetres
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Width: 407 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Scotin is named as the engraver in the first state.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1998 Jan-Apr, USA, Berkeley AM, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Jun-Aug, Ottawa, NGC, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Sep-Nov, USA, NY, Columbia Univ, Hogarth and his Times
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0417.559