'The Arrest' by William Hogarth print

The Arrest print by William Hogarth. This is the fourth painting from Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series.

Having wasted his inheritance, Tom is arrested for debt on his way to St James's Palace to celebrate the Queen's birthday.  Sarah offers her purse, hoping to procure his release.

The eight paintings in William Hogarth's a Rake's Progress tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice and self-destruction after inheriting a fortune from his miserly father, finally ending up deranged and penniless in Bedlam, after his failure to establish himself in society.  It was Hogarth's second 'modern moral subject', and followed the hugely successful A Harlot's Progress (1730).

The paintings were in the possession of William Beckford until Soane bought them at an auction in 1802 for 570 guineas (Mrs Soane bid for them at Christie's on her husband's behalf).  The paintings were originally hung at Soane's country villa, Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, but were moved back to Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1810.  In 1824 Soane re-hung them in his new Picture Room at the rear of No.14 Lincoln's Inn Fields together with the recently acquired series, An Election.

Digital prints are printed in the UK on 250gsm paper sized 280 x 356mm and have a white border. They are packaged in a cello bag with a backing board for protection.

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