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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate 8: In Bedlam
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 × 16 inches (35.9 × 40.6 cm), Plate: 14 × 16 inches (35.6 × 40.6 cm), Image: 12 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (31.4 × 38.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in brown ink, lower left: "c. fl. c 12 o fl. E"
Lettered inside image, upper left: "54"; upper center: "55"; upper right: "50"; upper left: "LE"; center left: "BRITANNIA 1763"; center: "Longitude | Antartic Circle"; center left: "... Sr. Athana... Sr. Lawrance"; center right: "Charming Betty Careless"; center right: "HS"; below image lower center: "Madness, Thou Chaos of ye Brain, } | What art? That Pleasure giv'st, and Pain? } | Tyranny of Fancy's Reign! } | Mechanic Fancy; that can build | Vast Labarynths, & Mazes wild, | With Rule disjointed, Shapeless Measure, | Fill'd with Horror, fill'd with Pleasure! | Shapes of Horror, that wou'd even | Cast Doubt of Mercy upon Heaven. | Shapes of Pleasure, that but seen | Wou'd split the Shaking Sides of Spleen. | O Vanity of Age! here see | The Stamp of Heaven effac'd by Thee -- | The headstrong Course of Youth thus run, | What Comfort from this darling Son! | His rattling Chains with Terror hear, | Behold Death grappling with Despair; | See Him by Thee to Ruin Sold, | And curse thy self, & curse thy Gold."; lower right: "Retouch'd by the Author 1763"; lower right: "invented &c. by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June ye 25. 1735 ."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1418
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42003
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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]
Katy Barrett, Looking for “ the Longitude ” : Look First, British Art Studies, Issue 2, Spring 2016, pages are unnumbered, fig. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/kbarrett [Website]
Julia Skelly, Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919 : wasted looks, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surrey, 2014, pp. 107-08, N8251.S555 S59X 2014 (LC) (SML) [ORBIS]