Blog - William Hogarth

Tom Rakewell is consigned to debtors’ prison.

Tom Rakewell gambles his fortune away.

Tom Rakewell enters into a marriage of convenience

Tom Rakewell is saved from debtors’ prison

Tom patronising the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden.

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

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