A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–34, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). The original paintings are in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where they are
William S. Brock William S. Brock William S. Brock, Sr. (1895 – November 13, 1932) was an aviation pioneer. With Edward F. Schlee he made the eighth non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. He was born in 1895. He married Violet Harrison January 23, 1915 in Rochester, New York and had as their son, William S. Brock, Jr. In 1927, he and Edward F. Schlee planned to fly around the world in their airplane "Pride of Detroit". He died on November 13, 1932 at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois of cancer. The airplane "Pride of Detroit" is in the Henry Ford Museum in