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

Scene in a Madhouse (from A Rake's Progress, plate 8)

Artist William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

Date1735-1763

MediumEngraving

DimensionsMat: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Paper: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (43.82 x 52.07 cm)
Image: 14 x 16 in. (35.56 x 40.64 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

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

Object numberPR-84-144

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PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionA crowd of people sitting, standing, and crouching in an interior on stairs and in doorways. Tom Rakewell sits on the floor in the foreground is not wearing a shirt and is being attended to by a woman (Sarah Young) and two men; musicians and a dog play on the stairwell to the right; two ladies dressed in fine 18th-century attire stand in the back; other patients/inmates are in rooms. Illustration from a scene in Hogarth's A Rake's Progress in Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam), London.