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In the eighth and final painting of William Hogarth's series A Rake's Progress, Tom ends his days in Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam), London's celebrated mental asylum with only Sarah Young to comfort him. Some of the details in the pictures may appear disturbing to modern eyes, but were commonplace in Hogarth's day e.g., the fashionably dressed women in the last painting who have come to the asylum as a social occasion, to be entertained by the bizarre antics of the inmates.

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Artist	Hogarth, William
Title	Deutsch: Gemäldefolge »Der Lebensweg eines Wüstlings«, Szene: Das Irrenhaus
Year	1732-1735
Technique	Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions	Deutsch: 62,5 × 75 cm
Current location	Deutsch: Sir John Soane's Museum	Deutsch: London
Notes	Deutsch: Satire, Zyklus von acht Gemälden
Source	The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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Creator/Artist
Name	Hogarth, William
Date of birth/death	1697-11-10	1764-10-25
Location of birth/death	English: London, UK	English: London, UK
Work location	English: London, Chiswick

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