William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 4: Arrested For Debt, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm.
Elric Hooper & Des Wilson present an introduction Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress.
It tells the story of Tom Rakewell who unwittingly makes a bargain with the Devil which includes marriage to a bearded lady, an encounter with a machine that supposedly turns stones into bread, and ultimately confinement to a madhouse.
A 1947 Chicago exhibition of William Hogarth's sequence of paintings depicting "A Rake's Progress" inspired Stravinsky to compose an opera. With an English libretto by WH Auden & Chester Kallman, the work premièred at La Fenice in Venice in 1951.
Hogarth's painting of 'The Tavern Scene'.
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 1: The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 2: Surrounded By Artists And Professors, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 3: The Tavern Scene, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 4: Arrested For Debt, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm.
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 5: Married To An Old Maid, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 6: Scene In A Gaming House, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 7: The Prison Scene, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm
William Hogarth: A Rake's Progress, Plate 8: In The Madhouse, Engraving, 35.5 x 41cm. This is a scan of a print from the plate after Hogarth
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