Rake's Progress

between 1961 and 1962

David Hockney English, born 1937

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About the Artwork

Title Rake's Progress

Artwork Date between 1961 and 1962

Artist David Hockney

Life Dates born 1937

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Color etching

Dimensions Sheet: 19 1/2 × 27 1/8 inches (49.5 × 68.9 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manoogian

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 68.275.C

Markings

Signed Signed, dated, and inscribed, lower center, in ink and graphite: December 1963 David Hockney Set Number 31/50

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Marks Printed, in black: These etchings were begun in London in September 1961 | after a visit to the United States. My intention was to make | eight plates, keeping the original titles but moving the | setting to New York. The Royal College, on seeing me start | work, were anxious to extend the series with the idea of | incorporating the plates in a book of reproductions to be | printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press; accordingly I set | out to make twenty-four plates, but later reduced the total | to sixteen, retaining the numbering from one to eight and | most of the titles in the original tale. | Altogether I made about thirty-five plates of which nineteen | were abandoned, so leaving these sixteen in the published | set. No 7 and 7a were etched at the Pratt Graphic | Workshop in New York City in May of this year, the others | at the Royal College of Art from 1961 to 1963.

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1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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David Hockney, Rake's Progress, between 1961 and 1962, color etching. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manoogian, 68.275.C.