A Rake’s Progress: The Gaming House

1735-06 · cartoon

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Over het werk

A rich man’s son, Tom Rakewell, has just gambled away a fortune in White’s Club in London. Kneeling, he prays for God’s help. Fire breaks out behind him, but men gamble away, unaware of impending danger. Hogarth devoted a series of eight paintings to Tom’s wasteful lifestyle, which he later issued in print. Incidentally, it ended badly for Tom: he was thrown into debtors’ prison and ultimately landed in a mental institution.

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Gegevens

Inventarisnummer: RP-P-OB-19.239

Wat het toont

Arm raised, with fist Games of calculation and chance, e.g.: card games, gambling, puzzles, etc.Wig Covent Garden

In de catalogus

Prenten Rococo 18e eeuw

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Afbeelding: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain

In het leven van William Hogarth

Het hele leven

1712–1764 · Werkzaam in
London
1735
Founds the St Martin’s Lane Academy
In 1735 Hogarth founded the St Martin’s Lane Academy in London — in essence a drawing studio that grew out of a circle of painters, draughtsmen and engravers who met at Slaughter’s coffee house on St Martin’s Lane. It became a forerunner of the Royal Academy of Arts and spread new artistic ideas in England.
25 June 1735
“Hogarth’s Act”: copyright for engravings
When the success of the two series produced numerous pirated copies, Hogarth lobbied Parliament for a law protecting engravers: the Engravers’ Copyright Act, known as “Hogarth’s Act”, became law on 25 June 1735 — the first copyright law to cover visual works and to recognise the authorial rights of an individual artist.

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