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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate V: He Marries
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 × 16 inches (35.6 × 40.6 cm), Image: 12 1/4 × 15 1/4 inches (31.1 × 38.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: "This Church of | St. Mary le Bone | was Beautified | in the year 1725 | Tho Sice | Tho Horn } | Church | Wardens"; center: "IHS"; upper right: "I Believe | in God"; center right: "VI | VII | VIII | IX | X"; center left: "THESE: PEWES UNSCRUD: AND: TAN: IN: SUNDE- | IN: STONE: THERS: GRAVEN: WHAT: IS: UNDER: | TO: WIT: A: VALT: FOR: BURIAL: THERE: IS | WHICH: EDWARD: FORSET: MADE: FOR: HIM: AND: HIS"; center right: "OF | MATRIMONY | I - | W- | W-"; lower left: "THE | POOR BOX"; below image, lower center: "New to ye School of hard Mishsap, | Driven from ye Ease of Fortune's Lap, | What Shames will Nature not embrace, | T'avoid less Shame of lean Distress? | Gold can the Charms of Youth bestow, | And mask Deformity with Shew, | Gold can avert ye Sting of Shame, | In Winter's Arms create a Flame, | Can couple Youth with hoary Age, | And make Antipathies engage."; lower center: "Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm Hogarth & Publish'd June ye 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament.--"; lower right: "Plate 5."s
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1415
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- satire
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42000
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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]