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A rake, Tom Rakewell, is measured for new clothes while a servant is hanging the room in black to show mourning. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Wellcome Collection

A rake, Tom Rakewell, is measured for new clothes while a servant is hanging the room in black to show mourning. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1796

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: O vanity of age, untoward, ever spleeny, ever forward! Why those bolts, & massy chains, squint... Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by T. Cook

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