| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | Surrounded By Artists And Professors, 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 13/16 in x 23 1/16 in; 45.2 cm x 58.6 cm; Plate: 14 1/16 in x 16 1/16 in; 35.7 cm x 40.8 cm; Image: 13 9/16 in x 15 1/4 in; 34.4 cm x 38.7 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. ctr. (black ink, within plate): Prosperity (with Harlot's smiles, / Most pleasing when she most beguiles,) / How soon, Sweet foe, can all thy Train / Of false, gay, frantick, loud & vain, / Enter the unprovided mind. / And Memory in fetters bind; / Loud faith and Love with golden chain, / And sprinkle Lethe o're the Brain! / Pleasure on her silver Throne / Smiling comes, nor comes alone; / Venus moves with her along, / And smooth Lyoeus, ever-young; / And in their Train, to fill the Press, / Come apish Dance, and swolen Excess, / Mechanic Honour, viscious Taste, / And fashion in her changing Nest. ; SIGNATURE/PUBLISHER: recto, lwr. ctr. (black ink, within plate): Invented &c by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June ye. 25, 1735 ; INSCRIPTION; recto, r. lwr. (black ink, within plate): Plate. 2d.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.2
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Man in 18th-century attire poses with violin in foreground, surrounded by 8 other male figures. Figure in white wig is playing piano at lower left, with a long scroll trailing over back of chair. At lower right, a man kneels holding a trophy and a whip-like object.
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