William Hogarth

Plate 1,

Maker

Title

Plate 1

Medium

etching, engraving

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Plate: 35.6 x 40.8 cm (14 x 16 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:In pencil inscribed, LR:IIIVerso:in pencil inscribed, center of right half of sheet:3rd State with the Bible at left/The tailor's bill has been removed from the roll of cloth. ; inscribed, LL:9.20.52 A-9/ColnaghiIn Plate--Inscribed, LR:Invented Painted & Engrav'd by W.m Hogarth, &/Publish'dJune y.e 25 1735.According to Act of Parliament.Plate.1. ; inscribed, bottom margin:O Vanity of Age, untoward,/Ever spleeny, ever froward!/Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains,/Squint suspicious, jealous Pains?|Why, thy toilsom Journey o'er,/Lay'st thou in an useless store?/Hope along with Time is flown,/Nor canst thou reap y.e Field thou'st sown.|Hast thou a Son?In Tie be wise-/He views thy Toil with other Eyes-/needs must thy Kind, paternal Care, Lock'd in thy Chests, be buried there:|Whence then shall flow y.t friendly Ease,/That social Converse, homefelt peace,/Familiar duty without Dread,/Instruction from Example bre

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle.

Identification

State

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Type

Credit

Purchased and Presented by George P. Metcalf

Object Number

52.228.1

Plate 1
from the series "A Rake's Progress"

Original--Recto:In pencil inscribed, LR:IIIVerso:in pencil inscribed, center of right half of sheet:3rd State with the Bible at left/The tailor's bill has been removed from the roll of cloth. ; inscribed, LL:9.20.52 A-9/ColnaghiIn Plate--Inscribed, LR:Invented Painted & Engrav'd by W.m Hogarth, &/Publish'dJune y.e 25 1735.According to Act of Parliament.Plate.1. ; inscribed, bottom margin:O Vanity of Age, untoward,/Ever spleeny, ever froward!/Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains,/Squint suspicious, jealous Pains?|Why, thy toilsom Journey o'er,/Lay'st thou in an useless store?/Hope along with Time is flown,/Nor canst thou reap y.e Field thou'st sown.|Hast thou a Son?In Tie be wise-/He views thy Toil with other Eyes-/needs must thy Kind, paternal Care, Lock'd in thy Chests, be buried there:|Whence then shall flow y.t friendly Ease,/That social Converse, homefelt peace,/Familiar duty without Dread,/Instruction from Example bre

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle.

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Exhibition History

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