Print: 'The Heir' by William Hogarth Hogarth Get a taste for the

Get a taste for the period in which Sir John Soane lived

a symbol of royal pharaonic authority in ancient Egypt

This cast of the iconic original was formerly in the possession of the 3rd Earl of Burlington

offering her only a handful of money despite her mother's threats

Text by Emmy Watts

Print: 'The Heir' by William Hogarth Hogarth Get a taste for theThe Heir is the first painting from Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' series. Having inherited the hoarded wealth of his father, Tom Rakewell repudiates his promise to marry Sarah Young, who he has seduced, offering her only a handful of money despite her mother's threats. While he is thus occupied, his layer is robbing him. The eight paintings in William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who follows a path of vice