A Rake’s Progress, Plate 1: O Vanity of Age…

William Hogarth1735 (printed after 1761)

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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