'The Rake's Progress' by William Hogarth, Set of Eight Prints temple 19 March 1796

19 March 1796

This is the second painting from William Hogath's An Election series

The iconic facade of Sir John Soane's Museum

but a copy can be seen in Wilton House

an office for his architectural practice and a showcase for his expanding collection of works of art and architectural fragments

'The Rake's Progress' by William Hogarth, Set of Eight Prints temple 19 March 1796The 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