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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Make Pop Art from source -- allow 60 seconds for processing -- for larger images, contact us (what is this?). 4) Report broken link A Rake's Progress. No call number recorded on caption card [Rare Book...TITLE:A Rake''s Progress.CALL NUMBER:No call number recorded on caption card [Rare Book RR] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-78256 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:The fourth plate from Hogarth''s series, in which two baliffs have stopped the Rake''s sedan chair in St. James''s street but are foiled in their attempt to arrest him for debt by a woman he had seduced and abandoned who offers them her purse. In the foreground is an interesting group of children. Two bootlbacks, a newspaper-seller, and a gin-seller sit gambling by the roadside. They are barefoot and ragged, and one smokes whie another steals a handkerchief from teh Rake. The vices of the children are echoed by the proximity of Whites, a notorious gambling club at that period, in the background. MEDIUM:1 print. CREATED/PUBLISHED:1735. NOTES: By William Hogart, 1735. Illus. in: The Original Works fo William Hogart (London: J. and J. Boydell, 1790). Ref. copy may be in LCQJ, Summer 1982. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Transportation; Cartoons, Br.; Gt. Br.--London--St. James St.; Child Labor; Gamboling; Publ. Ind. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b25359 CONTROL #:2002706057
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