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A Rake’s Progress VIII

Art, History

Tom Rakewell ends his days in Bethlem Hospital.

A Rake’s Progress VII

Art, History

Tom Rakewell is consigned to debtors’ prison.

A Rake’s Progress VI

Art, History

Tom Rakewell gambles his fortune away.

A Rake’s Progress V

Art, History

Tom Rakewell enters into a marriage of convenience

A Rake’s Progress IV

Art, History

Tom Rakewell is saved from debtors’ prison

A Rake’s Progress III

Art, History

Tom patronising the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden.

A Rake’s Progress II

Art, History

Tom as a wealthy and well-connected “man about town”.

A Rake’s Progress I

History

The first in this series of engravings shows Tom Rakewell taking possession of the effects of his wealthy but miserly father, who has died without making a will