| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | Married To An Old Maid, 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 in x 16 1/16 in; 35.6 cm x 40.8 cm; Image: 13 5/8 in x 15 5/16 in; 34.6 cm x 38.9 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTIONS: recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): New to ye. School of hard Mishap, / Driven from ye. Ease of Fortune's Lap, / What Shames will Nature not embrace / T'avoid less Shame of lean Distress? / Gold can the Charms of youth bestow, / And mask Deformity with Shew, / Gold can Avert ye. Sting of Same, / In Winter's Arms create a Flame, / Can couple Youth with hoary Age, / and make Antipathies enage. ; recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Invented Painted & Engraved by Wm. Hogarth & Published Jane ye. 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament ; recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Plate 5.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.5
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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