A Rake's Progress, Plate 2, William Hogarth, 1735

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. 1735 etching and engraving. Date: 1735. Dimensions: Height: 350 mm; Width: 403 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Farinelli. Collection: British Museum. A Rake's Progress, Plate 2 (BM 1868,0822.1529 1)