Hogarth’s eight-painting series A Rake’s Progress (1732–35) traced Tom Rakewell’s inheritance, dissipation, debtor’s prison, and asylum. The phrase “rake’s progress” entered English by 1833, meaning a steady decline due to vice or folly. A reminder that English carries the names of specific eighteenth-century paintings around as ordinary nouns. The originals are at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.