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

Marries an Old Woman (from A Rake's Progress, Plate 5)

Artist William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

Date1735-1763

MediumEngraving

Dimensionsimage: 14 x 16 in. (35.6 x 40.6 cm)
sheet: 17 1/2 x 21 in. (44.5 x 53.3 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

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

Object numberPR-84-141

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionAn intimate wedding between a man, Tom Rakewell, and an old woman attended to by a young woman. A boy and two dogs in the foreground, three children in the background, the scene takes place in an interior. Illustration from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.