Print: 'The Heir' by William Hogarth Hogarth Choose from Orange Grove

Choose from Orange Grove

a symbol of royal pharaonic authority in ancient Egypt

Text by Emmy Watts

This hand crafted reproduction has been produced from a mould taken directly from the original medieval carving and which captures all the fine detail applied by the master craftsmen that carved these during the middle ages

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

Print: 'The Heir' by William Hogarth Hogarth Choose from Orange GroveThe 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