A Rake's Progress, 3: The Tavern Scene and from 1810 in Soane's town house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Brothel painting scene and the other seven paintings in the series are available in the picture gallery in the city residence, now converted to Sir John Soane's Museum. Hogarth's picture suite has been used as the basis for the English opera "The Rake's Progress", with libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman and with music by Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky had noted William Hogarth's pictures at an exhibition in Chicago in 1947, and got the idea to write an opera on the theme. A Rake's Progress, 3: The Tavern
The Great Red Dragon Paintings The Great Red Dragon Paintings "The Great Red Dragon" Paintings are a series of watercolour paintings by the English poet and painter William Blake, painted between 1805 and 1810. It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible. These paintings depict 'The Great Red Dragon' in various scenes from the Book of Revelation. Height: 43.7 cm, Width: 34.8 cm Housed at the Brooklyn Museum. This image is similar to the work of the same name in the Brooklyn Museum (see above) but the subject is shown from