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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Rake's Progress. IV. The Arrest for Debt , by Hogarth.
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PICTURE GALLERY.
William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The
Rake's Progress. Plate IV. The Arrest for Debt.
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. | ||
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setting of this scene is St. James Street on St. David's day, March
1st, when crowds in carriages and sedan chairs are hurrying to St.
James Palace for the celebrations. The man on the left of the
engraving wears a leek in his hat, making it obvious that he is a
Welshman. Tom is being carried in his sedan chair but is
rudely intercepted by bailiffs who arrest him for debt. His
old sweetheart, Sarah Young, happens to be passing and saves the
situation by paying what is necessary. Meanwhile an urchin
robs him of his gold headed cane and a man replenishing a street oil
lamp distractedly allows the oil to overflow, probably onto Tom's
head. |
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