'A Rake's Progress - 2: The Levée', 1733. Artist: William Hogarth.

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'A Rake's Progress - 2: The Levée', 1733. Tom holds a morning reception at his new palatial town lodgings. Vistors offer their services: a jockey, a dancing-master (with violin), a landscape gardener (holding a plan), identified as Charles Bridgeman, a poet, a tailor, and a musician (seated at the harpsichord), believed to be Hogarth's great rival, Handel. From William Hogarth, by Austin Dobson. [Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1904]

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