A Rake's Progress, Plate 4
William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764
published June 25, 1735
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Plate: 15 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (40.5 × 35.3 cm)
Sheet: 21 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (55 × 35.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund, the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W.18 Fund, the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund, the Barbara Dau '78 Fund for European Art, and the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
2015.9.4
Publisher
William Hogarth
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain and Ireland
Period
18th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
In plate, below image: O vanity of Youthfull Blood, so by Misuse to poison Good! Reason awakes, & views unbar’d The sacred Gates he watch’d to guard; / Approaching views the Harpy Law And Poverty with icy Paw / Ready to seize the poor Remains That Vice hath left of all his Gains. / Cold Penitence, lame After-Though, With Fears, Despair, & Horrors fraught, / Call back his guilty Pleasures dead, Whom he hath wrong’d & whom betray’d. / Invented Painted & [superscript] Engrav’d by Wm. [m superscript] Hogarth & Publish’d June ye. [e superscript] 25. 1735. According to Act of Parliament. _______ Plate 4.
Provenance
C. G. Boerner, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2015.
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