In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies. Engraving by T. Bowles, 1735.

  • Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.
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[1735]
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38347i
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The progress of a rake exemplified in the adventures of Ramble Gripe Esqr son of Sr Positive Gripe
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In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies. Engraving by T. Bowles, 1735. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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To the right a young woman faints supported by another woman who applies smelling salts. In the background "men mimick poets, popes, or kings". A geometrician draws diagrams and figures on the wall and a woman admires her reflection in a broken mirror

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[London] ([no 13 in Cornhill]) : [printed for John Bowles], [1735]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 23.4 x 31.2 cm.

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He is chained raving mad in Bedlam. A wall is inscribed "signs tangents", "longitude", etc. and there is a verse beneath the print

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, related to 139
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol. 3, no. 2257
D. Kunzle, 'Plagiaries-by-memory of the Rake's Progress and the genesis of Hogarth's second picture story', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29, 1966, plate 61b

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Wellcome Collection 38347i

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