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The Rake's Progress, a series of paintings (1735?) by British artist William Hogarth. These eight satirical scenes, which were much influenced by contemporary theater, depict the moral decline of a young city gentleman who inherits a fortune and squanders it on vice. Hogarth created engravings of the same images, which were immensely popular. In 1951, Igor Stravinsky turned the story into an opera with a libretto by W. H. Auden.
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