Title
A rake's progress: plate 8
1735
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- A rake's progress: the madhouse
- Date
- 1735
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching and engraving
- Edition
- iii of 3 states
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 41.0 cm platemark; 37.6 x 43.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2006
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 54.2006.8
- Copyright
- Artist information
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William Hogarth
Works in the collection
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About
In the final scene Tom is stripped of his clothes and reason, shackled and lying on the floor of Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). A company of madmen surrounds him, all suffering from various delusions, while his devoted lover weeps by his side. In the background a pair of fashionable lady sightseers is entertained by the naked kin, urinating in cell 55.
Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500–1900, 2014
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
A Rake's Progress: Hogarth and Hockney, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, Mar 2006–Mar 2006
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Ronald Paulson, Hogarth’s graphic works, London, 1989, pp 89–91, 97–98, no 139, illus pp 316–18.
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Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, New Haven, 1965, no 139.
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Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500-1900, Sydney, 2014, p 76, illus p 79.
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Peter Raissis, Look, 'That way madness lies', Sydney, Apr 2023-May 2023, pp 22–25: p 25, illus p 25.
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