| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | Arrested For Debt, 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: 14 1/8 in x 16 1/8 in; 35.9 cm x 41 cm; Image: 13 5/8 in x 15 1/2 in; 34.6 cm x 39.4 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTION: rect, lwr. ctr. (etched within plate): O Vanity of youthfull Blood, / So by Misuse to poison Good! / Reason awakes, & views unbar'd / The sacred Gates he watch'd to gaurd; / Approaching views the Harpy Law, / And Poverty with icy Paw / Ready to Seize the poor Remains / That Vice hath left of all his Gains. / Cold Penitence, lame After Thought, / With Fears, Despair, & Horrors fraught, / Call back his guilty pleasures dead, / Whom he hath wrong'd, & whom betray'd. ; recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd June ye. 25. 1735. According to Act of Parliament ; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Plate. 4.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.4
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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