a series of eight paintings (1733-5) by William Hogarth telling the story of a rake(= a fashionable young man who leads a wild and immoral life) who finally dies in Bedlam(= a hospital in London for the mentally ill). Hogarth later made the paintings into a popular series of engravings(= cheap printed copies). The phrase 'rake's progress' is still used about somebody ruining their life by wild and immoral behaviour.
روند تباهی, داستان یک عیاش, مسیر فروپاشی انسانی فاسد