Tom Rakewell in a cell in the Fleet Prison. The inscription across bottom refers to his wife's reproaches, a swooning woman and child, and the chemist (alchemist) by the furnace (background). A Rake's Progress is a series of 8 paintings by William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732-34, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735.

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A Rake's Progress, Fleet Prison, 1789

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