A rake's progress. Plate 2. The Levee., William Hogarth, artist, 1735, Greater London, engraving, A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732-33, then engraved and published in 1735. Te Papa has the set of eight engravings. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately the notorious Bethlem Hospital, or Bedlam. The original paintings are in Sir John Soane's Museum, London, where they are normally on display. The filmmaker Alan Parker has described the works as an ancestor to the storyboard.
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