Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Surrounded by Artists and Professors (from A Rake's Progress, plate 2)

Artist William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

Date1735-1763

MediumEngraving

DimensionsMat: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Paper: 17 3/4 x 21 1/2 in., (45.1 x 54.6 cm,)
image: 14 x 16 in., (35.6 x 40.6 cm,)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of H.J. Roberts, M.D., and the Honorable Carol A. Roberts

Object numberPR-84-138

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionA man seated at a piano, a group of men standing around the central character, Tom Rakewell, offer their services to the newly wealthy young man, a view of other figures in the next room. An interior scene with art on the walls and arched architecture. Illustration from a scene in Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.