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William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.

 
 The Rake's Progress.  Plate II.  The Levée.  1735.

Hogarth first achieved fame as an artist through his series of moralistic engravings, commencing with  A Harlot's Progress in 1731.  This was followed by A Rake's Progress in 1735, Marriage à-la-mode in 1743-5 and Industry and Idleness in 1747 .  Originally the sets of pictures were  oil paintings which Hogarth subsequently published as engravings.  They met with huge success and many copies were printed.  The original paintings of A Rake's Progress are extant and are displayed in Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

Having acquired enormous wealth Tom decides he may live like a prince and he starts the day with a morning levée.  The room is opulently furnished with paintings in gilded frames, an Italian old master of the Judgement of Paris, and two pictures of fighting cocks.  The characters who attend on him are (from left to right) a music master (said to have been modelled on Handel); a fencing master; a pugilist, Thomas Figg; a dancing master, Essex, carrying a small violin; a landscape designer, Charles Bridgeman; Captain Stab, a bodyguard cum fac-totum, who is offering his services; a bugler; a jockey who brings the silver bowl which has been won by one of Rakewell's horses in the steeplechase.  The scroll of paper over the back of the chair, which is not in the original painting, is said to be a list of patrons of Farinelli, an Italian castrato singer, to whom Rakewell has given a splendid snuff box.  His name is therefore  inscribed on the list of patrons for all to see.  

The Rake's Progress. II. The Levee.

  William Hogarth

British Artist and Engraver

The Rake's Progress.  II.  The Levée.   

Engraving, published   1735
 
 



The Rake's Progress. II. The Levée.



Source:  Hogarth's Works published by J. Dicks, 313 The Strand, London.  Circa 1880.  


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The Rake's Progress. Plate  I. The Inheritance.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  II. The Levee.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  III. The Orgy.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  IV. The Arrest for Debt.

The Rake's Progress. Plate  I. The Inheritance.   The Rake's Progress. Plate  II. The Levée.    The Rake's Progress. Plate  III. The Orgy at the Rose Tavern.      The Rake's Progress. Plate  IV. The Arrest for Debt.                                  

The Rake's Progress. Plate  V. The Marriage.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  VI. Ruin at the Gaming Table.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  VII. The Debtor's Prison.
The Rake's Progress. Plate  VIII. The Rake in a Madhouse.

The Rake's Progress. Plate  V. The Marriage.   The Rake's Progress. Plate  VI. Ruin at the Gaming Table.  The Rake's Progress. Plate  VII. The Debtor's Prison. The Rake's Progress. Plate  VIII. The Rake in a Madhouse.                                  

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