A rake's progress: The first step: an old widow woman offers him a mug of pumpkin wine. He finds it – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of A rake's progress: The first step: an old widow woman offers him a mug of pumpkin wine. He finds it. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A rake's progress: The first step: an old widow woman offers him a mug of pumpkin wine. He finds it
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An elderly widow offers a young man a mug of pumpkin wine in this drawing, and the title frames it as the first step toward his downfall. The title borrows from William Hogarth's eighteenth-century series of engravings about a young heir's ruin in London, which made the "rake's progress" a familiar cautionary theme. Here the artist returns to that moral story and sets the temptation in an everyday domestic scene. The medium is India ink with gray wash on paper, a quick and flexible technique often used for illustration and satire.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink, with gray wash on white wove paper ; 21.0 x 29.7 cm. (sheet) |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1973 May [publication date] |
| Subjects | Adults--1970-1980. Children--1970-1980. Eating & drinking--1970-1980. Rake's progress--1970-1980. Wine--1970-1980. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,191 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157732 |
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