A Rake's Progress, Plate 2, William Hogarth, 1735-1785 (c.)

Copy of a fashionable interior (after the painting at sir john soane's museum) with tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, farinelli), a fencing master (said to be named dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be james figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be charles bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey; after hogarth. 1768 hand-coloured aquatint with etching. Date: 1735-1785 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 308 mm (sheet); Width: 380 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Farinelli. Collection: British Museum. A Rake's Progress, Plate 2 (BM 1942,0929.4)