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• Author/Creator:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
  
• Title:[A rake's progress]. [Plate 8] [graphic] / invented &c. by Wm. Hogarth & publish'd according to act of Parliament, June [the] 25, 1735 ; retouch'd by the author 1763.
  
• Edition:[State 3, restrike].
  
• Publication:[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1790 and 1835]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.5 cm
  

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  • Location:MEDICAL/HISTORICAL, Histories, Locked (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Medical Historical Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Print20078
    
  • Status:No information available 
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• Local Notes:Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, Psychiatric -- Hospitals, Interior -- Patient restraints.
  
• Notes:Title and state from Paulson.
  Restrike of the third state of the plate, which was issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was later reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson.
  Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson.
  After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum.
  Exhibited: Bethlehem, Bethlem, Bedlam, Yale Medical Library, New Haven, CT, 1982/3.
  
• Summary:A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman and a warder; in the background, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall). Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on to his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude and an image of the reverse of a coin, lettered "Britannia/1763", and the name of a well-known prostitute, Betty Careless.
  
• Variant and related titles:First line of text: Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
  Title from British Museum catalogue: Scene in a madhouse
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2246
  Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 139
  
• Subjects:Psychotherapy patients.
  Hospitals--Great Britain.
  Psychiatric hospitals.
  Restraint of patients.
  Interiors.
  Asylums.
  Mental institutions.
  Mentally ill persons.
  Rake's progress.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1735.
  Engravings--England--London--1790.
  Etchings--England--London--1790.
  Restrikes.
  
• Also listed under:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.