25 1/4 inches x 19 1/4 inches

A nice dark, deep impression from one of Hogarth's most famous series! Nobody mourns her passing at the mock vigil held for her. Dressed in a grand gown, she is an object of ridicule to those around her. Expires while the Doctors are Disputing The delicate silver teapot is replaced by a tin pot and the elegant table by a heavy, functional piece on which lie butter wrapped in a pastoral letter ("Pastoral Letter to") and some eating utensils. [For sale in a complete set of 6, see below for details].
The prisoners are ranked by the warden according to their wealth and appearance. Artist: William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Date: before April 1732. Comment on Their Moral Tendency

Harlot's Progress was later published by William Innell Clement in columns of his newspaper Bells Life in London #330 on 22nd June 1828.

Sad story. The six prints telling the cautionary story of Moll Hackabout, a harlot, were published in April 1732, the first of Hogarth’s ‘Modern Moral Subjects’. his venereal preoccupation causes him to spill. 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, An original copperplate engraving, over 190 years old. Discarded by the merchant and her marketability reduced by disease, Moll is forced to live in a slum in Drury Lane and serve the population at large, even sexual deviants. In the first plate of the series you can see the older woman praising her beauty, while offering her a job. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

It is a discriminating portrayal of the fatal nature of human vanity and blindness, however innocuous, in the face of ruthless economic and sexual forces. A lavishly furnished bedroom; Moll distracts her wealthy Jewish protector by exposing a breast and at the same time tipping over a tea-table so that her lover can slip quietly out of the room; in the foreground a mask lies on a table, a pet monkey scampers away with a piece of lace and a black boy dressed in a feathered turban and … Condition: Very Good to Excellent— Scattered foxing in margins, which would be covered once mounted/matted for framing. The artist himself remains as famous for his engravings today as he does his paintings, which is relatively rare within art history.

Condition: Very Good to Excellent— Scattered foxing in margins, which would be covered once mounted/matted for framing. The only person with a sense of decorum is Moll's maid, who glares angrily at the conduct of the parson and his mate. Above that hangs portraits of mill's idos, the roguish highwayman Mac(k)heath from Gay's Beggar's Opera and "Dr Sacheveral S.T.P." (31.6 x 37.9 cm) Classification: Prints. Title: A Harlot's Progress, Plate 2. The mantelpiece is lined with similarly useless prescriptions. 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, An original copperplate engraving, over 190 years old. Invented, Painted and Engraved by William Hogarth The second plate depicts Moll being a kept mistress of two lovers, however her luck soon turns as the third plate shows that she no longer being a kept mistress, but a common prostitute. Plate size: approx. Visual Arts —> Beside her a more experienced, older woman rests on her mallet as she watches the keeper's movements.

Source: Complete Works, facing p. 108. This is a non-editioned multiple. They are placed there not merely as circumstances which belong to Jewish story, but as a piece of covert ridicule on the old masters, who generally painted from the ideas of others, and repeated the same tale ad infinitum. Moll's servant, dressed in rags but for a pair of incongruously gaudy shoes and stockings, smiles at the woman's treatment of her mistress. (Heath edition, 1822) (33.9 x 40.4 cm) Classification: Prints. (Jones and Co., Temple of the Muses, (Late Lackington's), Finsbury Square, London, 1833). Comment on Their Moral Tendency

Complete set of 6 full-page, original copperplate engravings

15 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches Hackabout" lies in the vanity drawer. This procuress seems to be the instrument of the nobleman who stands in the shadow of the door leering intensely at the girl, his right hand fumbling suspiciously in his pocket. [For sale in a complete set of 6, see below for details], A Harlot's Progress Sentenced to Bridewell Prison, Moll beats hemp with the other prisoners, mostly women, in this brutalizing house of "correction." frames. Vertue gives an elaborate account of the appearance of the Harlot series: The most remarkable Subject of painting that captivated the Minds of most persons of all ranks and conditions from the greatest Quality to the meanest was the Story painted and designed by Mr. Hogarth of the Harlots Progress and the prints engravd by him and publishd. Ensnared by a Procuress An original copperplate engraving, over 190 years old.

Six prints, forming the set 'A Harlot's Progress. Many of the plate depict London society at the time and as Molls descent into the abyss began you can see the hopelessness of the company she was keeping, even after she was gone.

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