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A Rake’s Progress, Plate 1: O Vanity of Age…
William Hogarth1735 (printed after 1761)
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: A Rake’s Progress, Plate 1: O Vanity of Age…
- Creator: William Hogarth
- Date Created: 1735 (printed after 1761)
- Subject Keywords: satire, sequences, series (groups), sex role, sexuality, vices
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Invented, Painted & engraved by Wm. Hogarth”
- Set or Series Title: A Rake’s Progress
- Print State: Fourth of four states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1943
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Printed after 1761, probably posthumously by John Boydell; dated June 1735
- Dimensions: 1764
- Bibliography: Paulson 132 (1989 edition); D’Oench, Prodigal Son Narratives 1480–1980 (Yale University Art Gallery and Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 1995), cat. no. 12, pp. 10–11.
- Associated People: Created by William Hogarth (British (English), 1697-1764)
- Accession Number: 1943.D1.108.1
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