"A Rake's Progress"
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"A Rake's Progress"
p5435375 (Collage 25228)
London Metropolitan Archives: Hogarth Collection
Plate IV of "A Rake's Progress"; shows Tom Rakewell, heading for a royal levee at St James's Palace in his sedan chair, being stopped by two bailiffs, who arrest him for debt. Sarah Young, a seamstress, holds back one of the bailiffs and profers a bag of money to bail the rake out.
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