| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | The Tavern 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 7/8 in x 23 1/8 in; 45.4 cm x 58.7 cm; Plate: 14 in x 16 in; 35.6 cm x 40.6 cm; Image: 13 9/16 in x 15 7/16 in; 34.4 cm x 39.2 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTIONS: recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): O Vanity of youthfull Blood, / So by Misuse to poison Good! / Woman, form'd for Social Love, / Fairest Gift of Powers above! / Source of every Houshold Blessing, / All Charms in Innocence possessing: / but turn'd to Vice, all Plagues above, / Foe to thy Being, Foe to Love! / Quest Divine to outward Viewing, / Abler Minister of Ruins! / And Thou, no less of Gift divine, / Sweet Poison of Missused Wine! / With Freedom led to ever Part, / And secret Chamber of ye. Heart; / Dost Thou thy friendly host betray, / And Shew thy riotous gang ye. way, / To enter in with covert Treason, / O'erthrow the drowsy Guard of Reason, / To ransack the abandon'd Place, / And Revel there with wild Excess? ; recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Invented, Painted, Engrav'd & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth June ye. 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament. ; recto, lwr. r. (etched, within plate): Plate 3.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.3
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
People in 18th-century period clothing seated around a table in a crowded room. Framed pictures, a map, and a broken mirror hang on walls. At left, seated man in tricorner hat rests proper left leg on table while entertaining a young woman. At right, seated woman bends to adjust stockings, looking left. In foreground, a pile of clothing including a bodice rests on floor. In background, a woman and man holding a burning candle and a large plate stand in doorway.
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