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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate 7: In Fleet Street Prison
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.2 × 41 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 × 16 inches (35.2 × 40.6 cm), Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/4 inches (31.8 × 38.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper right: "3 | 2 | 1 | Philosophical"; center right: "Garnish | money"; lower right: "Sr. I have read your | Play & find it will | not doe yrs. T.R..L"; lower right: "Act 4"; lower left: "Being a New Schem | for paying ye Debts | of ye Nation by T: L: | now a prisoner | in the Fleet"; below image, lower center: "Happy the Man, whose constant Thought | (Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,) | Can send Remembrance back to fetch | Treasures from Life's earliest Stretch: | Who self-approving can review | Scenes of past Virtues that shine thro' | The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray, | To gild the Evening of his Day! | Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd: | No Pleasures meet his roving Mind, | No Blessings fetch'd from early Youth, | But broken Faith, & wrested Truth, | Talents idle, & unus'd, | And every Gift of Heaven abus'd,-- | In Seas of sad Reflection lost, | From Horrors still to Horrors tost, | Reason the Vessel leaves to steer, | And gives the Helm to mad Despair."; lower right: "Invented &c. by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd | According to Act of Parliament June ye 25. 1735."; lower left: "Plate 7"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1417
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42002
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