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Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
The Rake's Levee, 1735. A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to encourage him to ape the aristocracy. The pictures on the wall, however, show his lack of taste, scenes from classical mythology hang next to pictures of game-cocks. The characters in the picture would readily have been identified by Hogarth's contemporaries as real life London citizens. They include a paid bodyguard who lookes like a criminal, a jockey (kneeling in the front), a dancing-master with a kit-violin (a small three-stringed violin), a huntsman (blowing a horn), a music master, a French fencing master, a quarterstaff (a wooden staff used as a weapon) instructor, a landscape gardener (behind the Rake, with a drawn plan), a poet, and a tailor. Oil on canvas; 62,5 x 75 cm
Location
Sir John Soane's Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART212795
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
5976px × 5187px
Photo Credit
Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
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18th century CE
Aristocracy
Baroque
Bed
Bedroom
English
Ethics
Hat
Jockey
Music, sheet
Painting, Medium
Party, Festivity
Piano
Reception
Satire
Wig, hairstyle