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- Title:
- A Rake's Progress, Plate IV: Goes to Court
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (35.9 × 41.3 cm), Plate: 14 × 16 inches (35.6 × 40.6 cm), Image: 12 1/2 × 15 1/4 inches (31.8 × 38.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper right: "HODS- | SADL-"; inside image, center left: "WHITE"; center left: "Sarah Young"; center right: "Arrest"; center right: "41"; center right: "BLACKs."; lower center: "THE | FARTHING POST"; below image, lower center: "O Vanity of youthfull Blood, | So by Misuse to poison Good! | Reason awakes, & veins unbar'd | The sacred Gates he watch'd to guard; | Approaching views the Harpy Law, | And Poverty with icy Paw | Ready to seize the poor Remains | That Vice hath left of all his Gains. | Cold Penitence, lame After Thought, | With Fears, Despair, & Horrors fraught, | Call back his guilty Pleasures dead, | Whom he hath wrong'd, & whom betray'd."; lower center: "Invented Painted ^& Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd: June ye 25. 1735. According to Act of Parliament.--"; lower right: "Plate. 4."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1414
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41999
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