The Rake's Progress the Complete Set of the 8 Engravings Reduced and Taken from the Original Engravings, Colourised Then Mounted & Framed

Here we have the complete set of the 8 engravings of “The Rake’s Progress” reduced and taken from the original engravings and then colourised. The have been sympathetically mounted and framed. A Rake's Progress (or The 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 series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). The original paintings are in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where they are normally on display for a short period each day. The filmmaker Alan Parker has described the works as an ancestor to the storyboard. I – The Heir, II – The Levée, III – The Orgy IV – The Arrest V – The Marriage VI – The Gaming House VII – The Prison VIII – The Madhouse Hogarth published engravings of the paintings on 25 June 1735, the day that the Engravers' Copyright Act became law. The composition of several of the engravings is reversed from the paintings, due to the printing process.