A Rake's Progress, Plate 5
Artist
William Hogarth
(English, born London, England 1697-died London, England 1764)
Date1735
Mediumengraving and etching
Dimensions
frame: 26 × 27 1/2 in. (66.0 × 69.9 cm)
sight: 14 × 16 1/8 in. (35.6 × 41.0 cm)
ClassificationPrint
Credit LineGift of Dr. Earle W. Newton
Object number2001.2.449.5
Descriptionindoor scene featuring a couple being wed by a judge or priest; the bride is an old woman, the groom a young man; a woman holds the bride's dress and a boy puts a basket at the couple's feet; in the background of the left three women fight; in the bottom left two dogs sit in front of a basket
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