The Rake's Progress
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The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight pai
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Hogarth's third painting, showing Tom experiencing a brothel in London
Tom in Bedlam, comforted only by Sarah Young (Anne in the opera) – the last of Hogarth's paintings.
William Hogarth
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William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and
The Rake's Progress
…The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. The story concerns the decline and fall of one Tom Rakewell, who deserts Anne Trulove…
The Painter and his Pug, 1745 self-portrait of Hogarth with his pug Trump
William Hogarth by Roubiliac, 1741, National Portrait Gallery, London
The Assembly at Wanstead House. Richard Child, 1st Earl Tylney and family in foreground
Self-Portrait, ca. 1735