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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate 1: He Takes Possession
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.9 × 41 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 × 16 inches (35.2 × 40.6 cm), Image: 12 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (31.4 × 38.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper right: "BEWARE"; upper right: "BEWA-"; inside image, center right: "To Mrs. | Sarah Young | in Oxford"; center right: "Dearest Lise | - to marry | you -"; lower center: "An Inventory of -"; lower left: "THE | HO- BIBLE"; lower center: "This Indenture | Lease & Release | Fines & Recovery | Mortgages | India Bonds"; lower right: "Memor.dums.: 1721 | May 3, my Son Tom | came from Oxford | 4th | Dine at ye French | Ordinary | 5th | Put off my Bad | Shilling"; below image, lower center: "O Vanity of Age, untoward, | Ever spleeny, ever froward! | Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains, | Squint suspicions, jealous Pains? | Why, thy toilsom Journey o'er, | Lay'st thou in an useless Store? | Hope along with Time is flown, | Nor canst thou reap ye Field thou'st sown. | Hast Thou a Son? In Time be wise -- | He views thy Toil with other Eyes -- | Needs must thy kind, paternal Care, | Lock'd in thy Chests, be buried there: | Whence then shall flow yt. friendly Ease, | That social Converse, homefelt Peace, | Familiar Duty without Dread, | Instruction from Example bred, | That youthfull Mind with Freedom mend, | And with ye Father mix the Friend? | Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth, & | Publish'd June ye 25 1735, according to Act | of Parliament. | Plate. 1."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1411
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41996
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British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]