| Maker(s): | Hogarth, William
| | Culture: | British (1697-1764)
| | Title: | In The Madhouse, 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 15/16 in x 23 1/16 in; 45.6 cm x 58.6 cm; Plate: 14 in x 16 in; 35.6 cm x 40.6 cm; Image: 13 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in; 34.3 cm x 38.7 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | INSCRIPTIONS: recto, lwr. ctr. (etched, within plate): Madness, Thou Chaos of ye. Brain, / What art? That Pleasure giv'st, and Pain? / Tyranny of Fancy's Reign! / Mechanic Fancy; that can build / Vast Labarynths, & Mazes wild, / With Rule dijointed, Shapeless Measure, / Fill'd with Horror, fill'd with Pleasure! / Shapes of Horror, that wou'd even / Cast Doubt of Mercy upon Heaven. / Shapes of Pleasure, that but seen / Wou'd split the Shaking Sides of Spleen. / O Vanity of Age! here see / The Stamp of Heaven effac'd by Thee- / The headstrong Course of youth thus run, / What Comfort from this darling Son! / His rattling Chains with Terror hear, / Behold Death grappling with Despair, / See Him by Thee to Ruin Sold, / And curse thy self, & curse thy Gold. ; recto, lwr. r. (etched, within plate): Invented & c. by Wm. Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June ye. 25.1735
| | Accession Number: | MH 2010.10.2.8
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Belle and Hy Baier Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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