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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Scene in a Madhouse (from A Rake's Progress, plate 8)
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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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.

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