A Rake’s Progress: The Gaming House

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A Rake’s Progress: The Gaming House

Creator

William Hogarth

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764) · 1697–1764

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Date
1735-06
Medium
paper
Culture
London
Institution
Rijksmuseum
Object ID
RP-P-OB-19.239

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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