Image

William Hogarth

Plate 7,

Description

Maker

Title

Plate 7

Medium

etching, engraving

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Plate: 35.1 x 40.5 cm (13 13/16 x 15 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil inscribed, LL:9.10.52 A-6/Colnaghi ; inscribed, center of right half of sheet:2nd State/With plate 7 at lower left/The bow on the little girl's cap now dark/The fainting woman's stays darkened a little, /with|||shading/The Rake's shoes darkenedIn Plate--Numbered LL corner:Plate 7 ; inscribed in bottom margin:Happy the man, whoe constant thought/(Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,)/Can send Remembrance back to fetch Treasures from Life's earliest.Stretch: | Whose self+ Approving can review/Scenes of past Virtues that shine thro'/The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray,/To gild the Evening of his Day!|Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd:No Pleasures meet his roving Mind,/No Blessings fetch'd from early youth,/But broken Faith, & wrested Truth,/Talents idle, & unus'd, And every Gift of Heaven abus'd____/In Seas of Sad Reflection lost/From Horrors still to Horrors tost,|Reason the Vessel leaves to Steer,/And Gives the Helm to mad

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

Identification

State

iv/iv

Type

Credit

Purchased and Presented by George P. Metcalf

Object Number

52.228.7

About

Plate 7
from the series "A Rake's Progress"

Original--Verso:in pencil inscribed, LL:9.10.52 A-6/Colnaghi ; inscribed, center of right half of sheet:2nd State/With plate 7 at lower left/The bow on the little girl's cap now dark/The fainting woman's stays darkened a little, /with|||shading/The Rake's shoes darkenedIn Plate--Numbered LL corner:Plate 7 ; inscribed in bottom margin:Happy the man, whoe constant thought/(Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,)/Can send Remembrance back to fetch Treasures from Life's earliest.Stretch: | Whose self+ Approving can review/Scenes of past Virtues that shine thro'/The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray,/To gild the Evening of his Day!|Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd:No Pleasures meet his roving Mind,/No Blessings fetch'd from early youth,/But broken Faith, & wrested Truth,/Talents idle, & unus'd, And every Gift of Heaven abus'd____/In Seas of Sad Reflection lost/From Horrors still to Horrors tost,|Reason the Vessel leaves to Steer,/And Gives the Helm to mad

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

iv/iv

Use

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