Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans. Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse),

Maker

Title

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)

Medium

etching, engraving

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image/plate: 35.4 x 40.6 cm (13 15/16 x 16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:In pencil inscribed, LR:IVerso:in pencil inscribed, LL:9.10.52 A-3/Colnaghi ; inscribed, center of right half of sheet:1st State[underlined].Before the lady with fan received a/cap./Before the monarch's crown was darkened./Before a coin (a halfpenny with Britannica 1763 in it)/on the wall in backgroundIn Plate--Numbered LR:Inscribed, LR:Invented & c. by W.m Hogarth & Publish'dAccording to Act of Parliament June y.e 25. 1735. ; inscribed, bottom margin:Madness, Thou Chaos of y.e Brain,/What art?That Pleasure giv'st, and pain?/Tyranny of Fancy's Reign!/Mechanic fancy; that can build/Vast Labyrinths, & Mazes wild,| With Rule disjointed, Shapeless Measure,/Fill'd with Horror, fill'd with Pleasure!/Shapes of Horror that wou'd even/Cast Doubt of Mercy upon Heaven.|Shapes of Pleasure, that but seen/Wou'd Split the Shaking Sides of Spleen./O Vanity of Age! here see/The Stamp of Heaven effac'd by Thee |The Headstrong C

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

52.228.8

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)
from the series "A Rake's Progress"

Original--Recto:In pencil inscribed, LR:IVerso:in pencil inscribed, LL:9.10.52 A-3/Colnaghi ; inscribed, center of right half of sheet:1st State[underlined].Before the lady with fan received a/cap./Before the monarch's crown was darkened./Before a coin (a halfpenny with Britannica 1763 in it)/on the wall in backgroundIn Plate--Numbered LR:Inscribed, LR:Invented & c. by W.m Hogarth & Publish'dAccording to Act of Parliament June y.e 25. 1735. ; inscribed, bottom margin:Madness, Thou Chaos of y.e Brain,/What art?That Pleasure giv'st, and pain?/Tyranny of Fancy's Reign!/Mechanic fancy; that can build/Vast Labyrinths, & Mazes wild,| With Rule disjointed, Shapeless Measure,/Fill'd with Horror, fill'd with Pleasure!/Shapes of Horror that wou'd even/Cast Doubt of Mercy upon Heaven.|Shapes of Pleasure, that but seen/Wou'd Split the Shaking Sides of Spleen./O Vanity of Age! here see/The Stamp of Heaven effac'd by Thee |The Headstrong C

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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Publications

Exhibition History

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