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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate 6: He Gambles
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 × 16 1/8 inches (35.6 × 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, center right: "R Justian | Card-Maker | to ..."; inside image, lower left: "Lent to | Ld. Cogg | 500 --"; below image, lower center: "Gold, Thou bright Son of Phoebus, Sourse | Of Universal Intercourse; | Of weeping Virtue sweet Redress, | And blessing Those who live to bless; | Yet oft behold this sacred Trust | The Fool of avaritious Lust, | No longer Bond of Humankind, | But Bane of every virtuous Mind. | What Chaos of such Misuse attends! | Friendship stoops to prey on Friends; | Health, that gives Relish to Delight: | Doubt & Mistrust are thrown on Heaven, | And all its Power to Chance is given. | Sad Purchace, of repentant Tears, } | Of needless Quarrels, endless Fears, } | Of Hopes of Moments, Pangs of Years! } | Sad Purchace, of a tortur'd Mind, | To an imprison'd Body join'd!"; lower right: "Invented Painted & Engrav'd by | Wm. Hogarth, & Publish'd June ye 25 1735 According to Act of Parliament. | Sold at ye Golden Head in Leicester Fields London: | Plate 6."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1416
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42001
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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]