William Hogarth
British, b.1697, d.1764
Tavern Scene Plate III From The Rakes Progress
- Engraving
- Purchased, 1978
- 350 x 399mm
- 78/215
Tags: bars (commercial buildings), candles, chairs (furniture forms), drinking, drinking glasses, fires (events), food, frames (furnishings), furniture, harps (chordophones), maps (documents), men (male humans), musical instruments, musicians, people (agents), plates (dishes), portraits, prostitutes, soldiers, tables (support furniture), trumpets (aerophones), women (female humans)
Making artful comment on the moral shortcomings of eighteenth-century London society, William Hogarth completed A Rake’s Progress, a series of eight paintings, in 1734 before publishing them as popular engravings. In them Tom Rakewell, the prodigal central character, squanders his inheritance for a life of carnal pleasure, and is here already well along the trail to financial ruin and madness.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Exhibition History
![Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000](/media/cache/05/97/05970cdff0f6b3264062d69bf2aa90f5.jpg)
