print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7044.1
- Title
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Object: Going to Court He Is Arrested at St. James's Gate
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Series: A Rake's Progress
- Description
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Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with considerable differences: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, honouring St David's day (March 1st) with a leek in his hat, "Nanny" offering a handful of money to reprieve her former lover, and a lamp-lighter carelessly spilling oil on the Rake's coat; in the distance to left, a group of street-boys point to "Taffy", a mannikin, perched on a lamp-post, and beyond the gate of St James's Palace. 1735
Etching
- Production date
- 1735
- Dimensions
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Height: 343 millimetres
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Width: 384 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of the piracies that Hogarth complained of in the "London Evening Post" for 3 June 1735 (three weeks before the Engravers' Copyright Act came into force and the publication of A Rake's Progress): "Printsellers who have of late made their chief Gain by unjustly pyrating the Inventions and Designs of ingenious Artists, whereby they have robb'd them of the Benefit of their Labours, being now prohibited such scandalous Practices from the 24th Day of June next, by an Act of Parliament pass'd the last Session, intitled, An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of Designing, Engraving, Etching, &c. have resolv'd notwithstanding to continue their injurious Proceedings at least till that Time, and have in a clandestine Manner procured mean and necessitous Persons to come to Mr William Hogarth's House, under Pretence of seeing his Rake's Progress, in order to pyrate the same, and publish base prints thereof before the Act commences, and even before Mr Hogarth himself can publish the true ones."
For a smaller version of this piracy see 1878,0914.7
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7044.1