| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects, 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 1/16 in; 45.4 cm x 58.6 cm; Plate: 14 1/16 in x 16 1/16 in; 35.7 cm x 40.8 cm; Image: 13 5/8 in x 15 3/8 in; 34.6 cm x 39.1 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. ctr. (black ink, within plate): O Vanity of Age, untoward, / Ever spleeny, ever (froward?) ! / Why those Bolts, & Massy Chains, / squint suspicions, jealous Pains? / Why thy toilsom Journey o'er, / Lay'st thou in an useless store? / Hope along with Time is flown, / Nor canst thou reap ye. Field thou'st sown. / Haft Thou a Son? In Time be wise- / He viens thy Toil other Eyes- / Needs must they kind, paternal Care, / Lock'd in thy Chests, be buried there: / Whence then shall flow ye. friendly Ease, / That social Converse, homefelt Peace, / Familiar Duty without Dread, / Instruction from Example bred, / That Youthful Mind with Freedom mend, / And with ye. Father mix the Friend? SIGNATURE/PUBLISHER: recto, lwr. r. (black ink, within plate): Invented by Wm. Hogarth, & Publish'd June ye. 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament. Plate 1.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.1
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Seven figures in a small room. Young man in center foreground is measured by a kneeling tailor while he gestures to two women standing by a door to the right. Behind young man to left an older man sits at a desk. In background someone puts wood in the fireplace and another man stands on a ladder with hammering at the ceiling. Foreground left is cluttered with rolls and stacks of paper, a chest with a cat leaning against one side, the sole of a shoe made out of the binding of a bible, and various other objects.
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