Confined in the Fleet Street Prison

• Engraved by William Hogarth, English
• Plate: 14 x 16 in.
  Engraving on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.169
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

The image is the 7th scene of the series A Rake's Progress. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London and carelessly spends all his money and is imprisoned in Fleet Prison.