print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Cc,2.115
- Title
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Object: Mad in Bedlam
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Object: A Rake's Progress, Plate 8
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Series: A Rake's Progress
- Description
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Copy of a scene in Bedlam with Tom at right, half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a man wearing a wig and a warder; in the background, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall, and another who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on to his straw bed) and two female visitors; the wall and the banister of a staircase to right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude and the name of a well-known prostitute, Betty Careless; with decorative border on either side; after Hogarth. 1768
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1768
- Dimensions
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Height: 260 millimetres (inner platemark)
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Height: 255 millimetres (outer platemark)
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Width: 310 millimetres (inner platemark)
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Width: 365 millimetres (outer platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cc,2.114 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,2.115
