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In the sixth painting of William Hogarth's series A Rake's Progress, Tom pleads for the assistance of the Almighty in a gambling den in the sixth painting. Neither he nor the other obsessive gamblers seem to have noticed a fire breaking out behind them.

Painting information
Artist Hogarth, William
Title
Deutsch: Gemäldefolge »Der Lebensweg eines Wüstlings«, Szene: Die Spielhölle
Year 1732-1735
Technique
Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions 62,5 × 75 cm
Current location
Deutsch: Sir John Soane's Museum
Deutsch: London
Notes
Deutsch: Satire, Zyklus von acht Gemälden
Source The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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Creator/Artist
Name
Hogarth, William
Date of birth/death 1697-11-10 1764-10-25
Location of birth/death
English: London, UK
English: London, UK
Work location
English: London, Chiswick
Public domain The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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