| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | The Prison Scene, from the series The Rake's Progress
| | Date Made: | 1735 plate; ca. 1745 print (before the final revisions)
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Etching; engraving; ink on paper
| | Place Made: | Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England; London
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 17 3/4 in x 23 1/16 in; 45.1 cm x 58.6 cm; Plate: 13 13/16 in x 16 in; 35.1 cm x 40.6 cm; Image: 13 7/16 in x 15 5/16 in; 34.1 cm x 38.9 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTIONS: recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Happy the Man, whose constant Thought / (Tho' in the School of Hardship taught,) / Can send Remembrance back to fetch / Treasures from Life's earliest Stretch: / Who Self=approving can review / Scenes of past Virtues that Shine thro' / The Gloom of Age, & cast a Ray, / To gild the Evening of his Day! / Not so the Guilty Wretch confin'd: / No Pleasures meet his roving Mind, / No Blessings fetch'd from early Youth, / But broken Faith, & wrested Truth, / Talents idle, & unus'd, / And every Gift of Heaven abus'd, / In Seas of Sad Relfection lost, / From Horrors Still to Horrors tost, / Reason the Vessel leaves to Steer, / And Gives the Helm to mad Despair. ; recto, lwr. l. (etched, within plate): Plate 7 ; recto, lwr. r. (etched, within plate): Invented& c. by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd / According to Act of Parliament June ye. 25.1735.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.7
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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