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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Rake's Progress. Plate VII. The Rake in a Debtor's Prison, by Hogarth.
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William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The
Rake's Progress. Plate VII. The Rake in a
Debtor's Prison.
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. | ||
| After
his gambling losses and being unable to repay his debts Rakewell is
incarcerated in the debtor's section of the Fleet prison. His
one-eyed wife comes there to rail against him, the prison warder
reminds him of unpaid entrance fees, the boy, who brings a
pint of porter, will not leave it until he receives payment.
On the other side his old sweetheart, who has come to help,
faints at the horror of the scene. She is helped by two
charwomen who attempt to revive her. Her daughter is clearly
distressed. Two other characters complete the scene - the one
on the right, having gone bankrupt himself, devises schemes for solving
the problem of the national debt. The other in the background
is busy with his furnace trying to turn base metals into gold.
On the table is a play, written in happier days by Tom, which
now is returned to him by some theatrical impresario who had give him
hope in the days of his wealth that it was a worthwhile creation and
could be profitably put on the stage. Now he returns it with
the curt note that 'It will not do'. |
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