Second state—The right hand and skirt of a man fallen on the ground stronger shadowed, and the lines over a vessel in the corner intersected.
1735.
1. The Rake's Progress, in eight plates.
Plate 1. First state—A book "Memdum 1721, May 3d. My son Tom came from Oxford. 4th, dined at the French Ordinary. 5th of June, put off my bad shilling." Second state—The book erased to insert the cover of a Bible as the sole of a shoe. The girl's face altered for the worse. Woollen-draper's shop-bill omitted.
Plate 2. First state—"Prosperity with Horlots smile." Second state—Altered to Harlots.
Plate 3. First state—Dated June ye 24th, 1735. Second state—June 25th, and a laced hat put on the head of the girl sitting next to the Rake. Pontac's head introduced in the place of a mutilated Cæsar.
Plate 4. Second state—Shoeblack stealing the cane, erased, and his place supplied by a group of gambling boys. This design is unquestionably much improved by the alterations.
Plate 5. Second state—The right foot of the bridegroom, which gave a tottering awkwardness to the figure, omitted. The maidservant's face altered. The hand of the figure looking out of the gallery blackened. In this print the artist has introduced a portrait of his favourite dog Trump.
Plate 6. Second state—Rays round the candle stronger.
In the original sketch, the principal figure was not, as now, upon his knees, but seated.