A Rake's Progress; plate VI of VIII Size:M: 75 x 60cm Detail of a stained glass

Detail of a stained glass window

Vincenzo Lunardi successfully ascended from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields in this red and white silk hydrogen balloon and flew to Ware

north view of Highbury and Canonbury House

Whitbread's was the largest brewery in London at this time

a suggestion was made by malicious persons

A Rake's Progress; plate VI of VIII Size:M: 75 x 60cm Detail of a stained glass'A Rake's Progress', 1735; plate VI of VIII. Tom Rakewell is in a gambling house in Covent Garden, London. Having just lost his wife's fortune, he falls to his knees losing his wig; his intense facial expression suggesting the first signs of madness.