G1816: The Rake Attends an Orgy at the Rose Tavern

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1816

People

William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)
Published by William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)

Title

The Rake Attends an Orgy at the Rose Tavern

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: A Rake's Progress
Alternate Title: A Rake's Progress, Plate 3.

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1735

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/256254

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 36.1 x 41.2 cm (14 3/16 x 16 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto, graphite: lines in graphite are drawn nearly over the plate mark
• inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: (upside down) 20----
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 5 short lines of illegible letters and numbers

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/iv

Standard Reference Number

P. 134, BM Sat. 2188, Clayton 100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G1816

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 21 on p. 80 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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