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

A Rake's Progress (Plate #3)

Artist William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

Date1735-1763

MediumEngraving

DimensionsMat: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Paper: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 in., (44.5 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-84-139

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionA crowd of people mostly seated around a large table drinking and talking merrily; a woman sits in the foreground while dressing/undressing, people stand in the doorway, a large stringed musical instrument (harp?) in the background, and art on the walls. Tom Rakewell, seated at left, is so inebriated that he is unaware that a woman is stealing from his pocket. Illustration from a tavern scene in Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.