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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1819
People
William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)
Title
The Rake Gambles Away His New Wife's Fortune
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Rake's Progress
Alternate Title: A Rake's Progress, Plate 6.
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1735
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238119

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 36.5 x 40.8 cm (14 3/8 x 16 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, graphite: lines in graphite are drawn over the plate mark
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: four or five short lines of illegible letters and numbers
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: (upside down)

    ZO----

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
P. 137, BM Sat. 2223

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1819
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Solkin, Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1992), repr. as fig. 22 on p. 80 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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