Rake (stock character)
Videos
In a historical context, a rake was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanizing. Often, a rake was also prodigal, wasting his fortune on gambling, wine, women, and song, and i
A Rake's Progress, 3: The Tavern Scene, 1732–1733 painting depicting several rakes in a London tavern
Lord Rochester, the most infamous of the Restoration rakes
Sherlock Holmes knocks out the cad Woodley
A Rake's Progress
Videos
A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. The
Rake (stock character)
…The rake became the butt of moralistic tales, in which his typical fate was debtors' prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam. The defining period of the rake was at the court of Charles II in the late 1600s. Dubbed the "Merry Gang" by poet Andrew Marvell…
The Heir
The Heir (engraving)
The Levée
The Levée (engraving)